Reviews

Smartarse new-wave Canucks re-release sprightly electro-punk debut

The Dame's cracked glam classic lavishly repackaged

Neat odd-couple comedy ruined by abysmal ending

A recent landmark in US indie cinema, writer/director Richard Kelly's feature debut is a mind-warping rites-of-passage tale with a striking central performance from Jake Gyllenhaal as the troubled teen trying to make sense of time travel conundrums in smalltown USA circa 1988. Exceptional.

No stranger to stage dramatics, Peter Gabriel created one of rock's great spectacles on 1993's "Secret World" tour. Seen by over a million people across five continents, only U2 and the Stones have rivalled it for theatrical excess. Robert LePage's stage designs still astound—and a still youthful-looking Gabriel matches them with his own charismatic presence on songs like "Sledgehammer".

Appallingly violent vigilante satire from Audition's Takashi Miike. The opening scenes, with the film's title spelt out in semen and the head baddie puffing smoke through his slashed-open cheeks, promise OTT entertainment. But as the plot unfolds, only the strongest stomach will handle the scenes of torture, mutilation and rape between the black laughs.

Disappointing retro-rock from Alan McGee's stable

Distorted Hammond freak-outs from band for whom term "acid jazz" was coined

Third album from the artist formerly known as Angelou

Brilliant, ghostly alt.folk from New York