Reviews

Subtle seafaring actioner set during the Napoleonic wars

Third fantastic album by the Swiss glitch situationists

Athens, GA septet deliver eloquently dreamscaped stopgap LP

Welsh neo-psych gang's most recent album gets the remix treatment

Essentially a Transatlantic label sampler of folksy recordings from the '60s and '70s

Smarter-than-it-looks biker flick

Filmed in '76, the conclusion to Roman Polanski's evil-rooms trilogy returns to the urban paranoia and fracturing psyches of Repulsion and Rosemary's Baby. Polanski—who'd just taken up residence in France—himself plays the vulnerable, mouse-like new occupant of a forlorn Paris apartment, whose creeping schizophrenia grows as he feels himself falling under the influence of the previous resident, a female suicide victim. A perverse slow-dazzle.

Another Cavalry Movie from Ford, and this time Johnny Reb's in the firing line as Yankee Colonel Wayne leads his troops on a demolition mission and kidnaps feisty southern belle Constance Towers. Here Ford's portentous 'Civil War is Hell' message doesn't quite gel with his trademark tomfoolery-drunken gags, funny fistfights and casual misogyny. The resulting film is strangely blank.

Stunningly underrated, ferocious portrait of Wild Bill Hickok

Astonishingly mature debut from Britain's brainiest new singer-songwriter