Reviews

Throbbing Gristle – The Taste Of TG: A Beginner’s Guide To The Music Of Throbbing Gristle

Introduction to the work of recently reformed art/industrial/electronica collective

The Saddest Trip

Superbly packaged box set of all five Garcia solo discs, plus oodles of outtakes

Blind Flight

Worthy take on Keenan/McCarthy hostage crisis

Hidalgo

Man and horse in perfect harmony

Spy Kids 3D: Game Over

The third in Robert Rodriguez's winning series sees the plucky youngsters enter a maniacal video-game world to confront misunderstood supervillain Sylvester Stallone. Plot barely matters, though, as the movie exists only for Rodriguez to indulge in a rampant, sweetly senseless exercise in reviving retro-3D gimmickry. All in all, how Tron should have been.

S.W.A.T.

Predictably brash big-screen version of unremarkable '70s TV show, with Samuel L Jackson knocking a rogue SWAT team into shape and making unlikely heroes of them. There's more gunfire than dialogue, so Jackson isn't asked to do more than shout a lot, while Colin Farrell squints manfully and kills everyone in sight.

Various Artists

November 2003's AIDS benefit in Cape Town was made special by the presence of one person. No, not Bono, Beyoncé, Geldof, Gabriel or Ms Dynamite, mightily as they perform. On this showing, the biggest star in the world is currently Nelson Mandela, who inspired the event and gets a cheer 10 times as long and loud as the rest combined. A vital cause, some decent music, a few dodgy stadium rock moments and the world's only living saint.

Mekons – Punk Rock

Jon Langford's perennial discontents make retro modern

In Todd We Trust

Twentieth solo album and full-scale return to form from the artist formerly known as TR-I

A Farewell To Arms

Waters' last Floyd album is harrowing and still surprisingly relevant
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