Reviews

Inveterate remixer (Pulp, St Etienne, Talvin Singh) chills out with some downtempo classics

Cleveland County bluegrass legend and Foggy Mountain Boy wows Newport festival crowd, 1959-66

Frothy Spielberg caper wastes classy cast

Jackie Chan does James Bond

Gary Sinise directs John Steinbeck's fatalistic Depression-era fable of friendship and sacrifice with a reverence for the text and a painterly eye for period 1930s detail. Sinise also co-stars alongside Sherilyn Fenn and John Malkovich, who anchors this 1992 remake as mentally challenged gentle giant Lenny. A handsome American classic, even if the overrated Malky's twitchy mannerisms irritate as much as ever.

West Country power pop brothers gonna work it out

Babylon burns on reggae superstar's nu-roots stormer

Japanese prog band keep genre alive

Underwhelmed as we are by franchise McBlockbusters, this score's by the really rather talented Howard Shore, who was responsible for the coolly sexy sounds which rippled under David Cronenberg's Crash. His soppy strings for the first Baggins movie won him all manner of awards and made the UK Top 10. This one is distinguished by its remarkable guest vocalists: Iceland's Emiliana Torrini and former Cocteau Twin Elizabeth Fraser—from "Pearly-Dewdrops' Drops" to Gollum and Samwise: it makes a kind of sense, no?

Cinematic album of moody instrumentals from Madder Rose duo