Reviews

Dazzling, genre-dodging debut from young American five-piece

Mekons singer from Venus takes on the men from Mars

Confederate quintet follow last year's Decoration Day with strapping sixth LP

Underrated US singer-songwriter employs appealing simplicity

The new hick hop movement starts here

Mississippi bluesman remixed for the hip hop generation

The latest French provocation

All-star cast fails to save plodding kidnap 'drama'

Director Emir Kusturica assembled Johnny Depp, Jerry Lewis, Faye Dunaway, Lili Taylor and Vincent Gallo in the desert and waited for inspiration. Quite what he was on can only be imagined. The movie has its ups and downs, but does boast two prime pieces of Gallo-ana: a reenactment of Cary Grant's escape from a cropduster, and a classic set-to between De Niro and Pesci with Vinnie playing both parts. Mad.

Elmore Leonard's first modern fiction novel was originally filmed in 1969 with Ryan O'Neal in the starring role. It flopped. This remake (directed by Miami Blues' George Armitage) fares no better; it drifts aimlessly, while Owen Wilson's small-time crook, drawn into a relationship with the thrill-seeking girl of a local property developer, never engages your feelings. Morgan Freeman, Charlie Sheen and Vinnie Jones co-star.