Reviews ...

Reviews

The Fall

Fall faves, and compelling collaborations with Badly Drawn Boy, Elastica et al

Sid Vicious – Vive Le Rock

Historic but tragic live shows on two CDs

Funkadelic

Bonkers funk group took R&B into space

Blue Crush

Grittier-than-average surfer-girl romance

The Centre Of The World

It's close to implausible that this graphic vignette about a computer geek falling foolishly for a hooker is co-written by Paul Auster and wife, and directed by Wayne Wang. It's not as insightful as it thinks it is, but it's certainly 'erotic'if you consider Molly Parker one of the planet's most alluring women. And she plays the drums.

Goin’ South

Jack Nicholson's second film as director, an anarchic western, with Jack's filthy outlaw saved from hanging, married off to Mary Steenburgen and put to work on her land. It's a shaggy, high plains African Queen, with Nicholson the director simultaneously coarse and tender and allowing Nicholson the actor one of his more raggedly wolfish turns.

Shakti—The Power

Run-of-the-mill contemporary Bollywood fare—a riot of colour, violence, heavy-duty tearjerking and song. But its tale of a beautiful young girl, Nandini (Karishma Kapoor), whose marriage sees her uprooted from a comfortable life in Canada back to the poverty of India, is a cut above. There she confronts her tyrannical father-in-law, striking as feminist a blow as Bollywood allows.

Autechre – Draft 7.30

Seventh album by Sheffield avant-electro duo, more approachable than their sixth

Transformer Glories

Coldplay join Echo & The Bunnymen singer on first solo outing since 1992

Slow Dazzle

Hazy 12th album from perennial indie favourites
Advertisement

Editor's Picks

Advertisement

PAgeskin