Reviews ...

Reviews

Tindersticks – Waiting For The Moon

The image of a band waltzing on the spot seems to accompany every Tindersticks album. Perhaps it's the curse of a band fortunate to work out a distinctive and effective sound at their inception. Whatever, Waiting For The Moon is the usual impeccably crafted artefact, though it's questionable whether anyone who owns their first two albums needs it in their lives. The aspirations to soul that marked out 2001's Can Our Love...

Chicago

Featherweight US rockers at their commercial peak

JJ Cale – In Session

Belated release of 1979 live session

Atrocity Exhibitions

Vital live dispatches from the last five months in the life of Ian Curtis

Broken Wings

Israeli director's debut takes flight

Mon-Rak Transistor

Musical melodrama offers glimpse of Thai culture

Tortilla Soup

Maria Ripoll's handsome 2001 remake of Ang Lee's Eat Drink Man Woman is anchored by the highly watchable Hector Elizondo as the widowed kitchen maestro with three wayward daughters and a frisky neighbour (Raquel Welch) who clearly wants to turn him into a naked chef. The plot has been sweetened a little, but the performances are fine and the photography sumptuous.

Insomnia

Memento man Christopher Nolan's elegant cop drama with Al Pacino magnificently muted as the hollow-eyed LA cop, sent to Alaska to hunt a killer and forming a strange relationship with Robin Williams' skin-crawlingly ingratiating psycho.

The Green Man School For Scoundrels

Two vintage Alastair Sim comedies released as a double-pack. In 1956's The Green Man he plays a political assassin whose plans are interrupted by the arrival of bumbling vacuum cleaner salesman George Cole; in 1960's School For Scoundrels—based on Stephen Potter's One-Upmanship books—he teaches downtrodden nice chap Ian Carmichael how to get the better of dastardly cad Terry-Thomas.

Lightning Bolt – Wonderful Rainbow

Startling third album by hardcore bass/drums duo from Rhode Island
Advertisement

Editor's Picks

Advertisement

PAgeskin