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Marc Carroll – All Wrongs Reversed

On-the-up Irishman offers lost songs and rarities

Various Artists – Beginner’s Guide To World Music

Moderately entertaining introductory selection

Anger Management

Neat odd-couple comedy ruined by abysmal ending

Donnie Darko

A recent landmark in US indie cinema, writer/director Richard Kelly's feature debut is a mind-warping rites-of-passage tale with a striking central performance from Jake Gyllenhaal as the troubled teen trying to make sense of time travel conundrums in smalltown USA circa 1988. Exceptional.

Peter Gabriel—Secret World Live

No stranger to stage dramatics, Peter Gabriel created one of rock's great spectacles on 1993's "Secret World" tour. Seen by over a million people across five continents, only U2 and the Stones have rivalled it for theatrical excess. Robert LePage's stage designs still astound—and a still youthful-looking Gabriel matches them with his own charismatic presence on songs like "Sledgehammer".

The Mission—Special Edition

Directed by Roland Jofféand elegantly scripted by Robert Bolt, with a landmark score by Ennio Morricone, this follows Robert De Niro's ex-mercenary and Jeremy Irons' Jesuit priest during violent 18th-century South American land-grabbing. And still, there's always been something disturbing about the way the movie so eagerly endorses the underlying missionary project.

Dashboard Confessional – MTV Unplugged V2.0

Second full LP from emo icons, with one new song. Plus Unplugged DVD

John Cale – 5 Tracks

Pro Tools-engineered collection and the Welsh legend's first new material since 1996's Walking On Locusts

Breathless – Behind The Light

Prog-rock magic from the original 'ethereal' enigmas

Medicine – The Mechanical Forces Of Love

Return of LA's My Bloody Valentine
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