Reviews

The James M Cain novel The Postman Always Rings Twice (femme fatale seduces drifter into murdering her husband) has often been revisited: this 1942 Luchino Visconti version, a Scorsese favourite, was considered immoral and subversive on release, yet spawned the Italian neo-realist school. Noir to the core, it's long and fatalistic.

Former Fairground Attraction singer tackles Scottish institution

Fourth album from Hounslow's Britpop perennials

First album in 11 years from Belgian "electronic body music" pioneers

Mini album from Birmingham avant-rockers

Follow-up to 2000's Got It Made from NY-Manc punk-hop crew. Includes that album's TV ad tune "Play Some D"

B.A.D. mainman and Roxy DJ's double-CD tribute to reggae's premier label

Wry, off-centre singer-songwriter on good form

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.