Tinchy Stryder: Catch 22

Tinchy Stryder makes a better fist of moving over from grime to pop than some of his peers, says Alexis PetridisIt's many years since anyone made one of those music biopics in which the subject plays him or herself. Nevertheless, it's a sub-genre that might be worth reviving for Tinchy Stryder, not least because the story of his rise to fame sounds exactly like a pitch for a certain kind of undemanding British comedy. Two clueless middle-class kids (Rupert Grint, Nicholas Hoult from Skins) set u...

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