Reviews

After the largely unheralded triumph of 2001's Tremendous Efforts, Toronto brothers Dallas and Travis Good-along with Sean Dean and sometime Pernice Brother, Mike Belitsky-serve up their finest yet. With Blue Rodeo's Greg Keelor replacing old producer Steve Albini, their trademark mix of Sergio Leone twitch, surf, cowpunk and desert-rock is cushioned with Lee Hazlewood-like ballads ("Oak Ridges", "The Story's Often Told"), fat horns ("Mile Over Mecca") and spooky duets (Dallas and mother Margaret's "A Steep Climb"), without compromising intensity.

Folk-rock giant follows up last year's Street Cries

Second album by Seattle-based lo-fi retro-lover

Underachieving solo debut from ex-Black Crowes wailer

Double-CD debut from new Prince. Only available at codychesnutt.com

Vintage blues and then some from revered bluesman

Re-releases for undeservedly forgotten post-punk Mancunians

Nicholson and Brando face off in Arthur Penn's uneven western

South African director Oliver Schmitz revisits the same territory as his angry anti-apartheid classic from 1988, Mapantsula, delivering a wry but equally scathing account of his post-Mandela homeland. Researching a role as a street hoodlum, a middle-class black actor (Tony Kgoroge) returns to his childhood township near Johannesburg to learn street cred from his former friend, a car-jacking gangster (Rapulana Seiphemo). A gripping, funny, darkly satirical thriller.

Disturbing documentary rips open America's dark heart