Reviews

Former Catatonia singer goes to Nashville and comes back with a Welsh country album produced by Bob Dylan's mate

Troubadour trio revive spirit of CSN with immaculate results

Mixed messages and beer-drinking songs from former Chris Stamey/dB's associates

Will Oldham and David Pajo on soundtrack duty

Companion piece to last year's live-in-the-UK comp. Includes San Francisco's 1966 add-on "Avalon Blues"

First four albums from Wayne Coyne's favourite progressive act, expanded and remastered

Faithful adaptation of Stephen King's alien epic

Animal House meets Fight Club

The first screen outing for a post-collegiate comedy team calling themselves Broken Lizard, Super Troopers is a spoof knockabout farce concerning clownish highway patrolmen in small-town Vermont. With Brian Cox as the indulgent police chief presiding over the goofy jokes and motorist-baffling stunts, writer-director-star Jay Chandrasekhar's feature debut is slight but sporadically hilarious.

A return to classic Mike Leigh terrain, this examines desperation, loneliness and family tragedy on a grim south London housing estate. Leigh regulars Timothy Spall and Lesley Manville are long-suffering parents who manage to invest their bleak lives with tenderness, truth and humour. Leigh may sail dangerously close to self-parody here, but nobody does it better.