Reviews

Belfast cowboy hitches his wagon to legendary jazz label

More cabaret from non-stop electro-neurotics

Down-home comeback by Alabama maverick. Little Feat's Bill Payne guests

Manchester trio deliver second album of wonderfully wistful, perfectly underplayed pop

A future greatest hits compilation from the hip hop producers with the keys to the kingdom

Second wave hip hop pioneers, unfairly best known for donating a little bit of that hip to Aerosmith

Hit-and-miss retelling of legendary outlaw's tale

Ghoulish Japanimation

November 1979. Bob Marley is already stricken with the cancer that will soon kill him. He's in the middle of a US tour that will take in 47 dates in 49 nights. By the time he reaches the Santa Barbara County Bowl, he's exhausted. He looks tired and has a cold he can't shake off. The throb in his cancerous toe is a constant reminder that he's dying. And yet he sounds magnificent.

Director Fred Schepisi attacks John Guare's stageplay, frenetically switching locations and narrators as often as possible in an attempt to movie-ise this intelligent, satirical, wordy account of sociopathic homosexual confidence trickster Will Smith (acting, for real!) and his divisive impact upon a group of pompous, wealthy, middle-aged Upper East Side culturati.