Reviews

Thrillingly antagonistic rock'n'roll. From Leicester

West African guitar legend delivers laid-back, melodic gem

Former Replacement's tired of waiting

North Carolina songstress' second LP

San Franciscan weds sombre songcraft to grooves and glitches

Long-lost Yorkshiremen's rousing return

Tense yuppies-as-shark-bait splasher movie

Riding that train, high on cocaine...Janis and Jerry in 1970

Three of Buñuel's berserk best, ridiculing bourgeois values and 'normal' sexuality. Diary Of A Chambermaid (1964) sees Jeanne Moreau as the social climber playing on the fantasies of the affluent. The Milky Way (1970) follows two tramps on a pilgrimage who encounter loopy heretics and priests. Belle De Jour (1967), with Catherine Denëuve, is, of course, the strangest, most haunting erotica of its age.

After falling out with Tarantino over the credits for Pulp Fiction, Roger Avary made this violent Paris-set heist movie in a bid to establish his creative autonomy. It was hammered by critics, who dubbed it "Reservoir Frogs" and dismissed Avary as derivative. Zoe's better than its reputation suggests, though, and has the added pleasure of Jean-Hugues Anglade going spectacularly bonkers as a smack-shooting gang leader.