Reviews

Subtle – A New White

cLOUDDEAD's Doseone in full-on mode

Never Mind The Ballads

Mouthy agit-rock trio trade spiky bombast for mellow elegance

Death In Vegas – Satan’s Circus

Rewarding diversion into Krautrock, plus bonus live CD

All Roads Lead To Land

Incredible String Band banjoist wanders up the garden path

The Curse Of The Jade Scorpion

Woody Allen movies come so fast (one a year since 1969) they're easy to overlook, but even diehards will be disappointed by this 2001 attempt at neo-'40s screwball noir. Woody's insurance investigator looks tired, and Helen Hunt strains amusement at his wisecracks, and the attempts to create sexual tension will have Billy Wilder spinning in his grave. Allen's worst to date.

Saving Private Ryan: Special Edition

Slightly crass 60th-anniversary edition of a six-year-old flick?a marketing gimmick that rewrites Spielberg's war record by rooting his movie in 1944, making it a document of the time, rather than a piece of late-20th-century fiction. Though it remains a spectacular, unequalled piece of action film-making.

Bad Santa

Insanely funny, foul-mouthed comedy with bells on

Neal Casal – Leaving Traces: Songs 1994-2004

18-track roundup of unsung songwriter

Britney Spears – My Prerogative: Greatest Hits

Hit us baby, one more time

Travis – Singles

Mellifluous Glasgow quartet remain invisible on solid career retrospective
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