Reviews

Tremeloes – Marmalade

Deep baroque pop from '60s stalwarts and psych-pop from Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da Glaswegians

Rory Gallagher – Wheels Within Wheels

Much lamented Irish guitar hero's roots exposed

Screwed Up

Bret Easton Ellis' cult novel filmed by former Tarantino collaborator

Northern Plights

Compelling Alaskan chiller from Memento director deserves reappraisal

Knockaround Guys

Producer Lawrence Bender wears his Tarantino badge with pride. Which is fine when producing QT movies but problematic in everything else (see Killing Zoe, From Dusk Till Dawn 3). Knockaround Guys, in classic Tarantino fashion, has edgy twenty somethings (Barry Pepper and Vin Diesel), a bag of loot, leather jackets, guns, the mob and, natch, a high-intensity Mexican stand-off finale. Derivative.

Van Wilder—Party Liaison

One of the last spasms from the gross-out "wave", this National Lampoon effort has—among the boobs, belching and frat-boy self-fingering—moments of comic charm from Ryan Reynolds. He has a knack for letting us know he's above it all while throwing himself into the stench. Bet he sleeps nights by telling himself Tom Hanks began his career in such muck.

Magical Misery Tour

Ten songs of dark and disturbing genius from Seattle singer-songwriter

MC Honky – I Am The Messiah

So-so solo album from E of The Eels

Doyle Bramhall – Fitchburg Street

Stevie Ray's soul brother still going strong

Joan Armatrading – Lovers Speak

Mature collection of new songs from pioneering '70s singer-songwriter
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