Reviews

Inessential but infectious comeback by big beat bossman

Wessex singer-songwriter honours his influences

Noir garage rock with guile and style

Awesome power-pop debut from LA

Shining debut from outrageously gifted 23-year-old Swede

S Club, Lush and others get droll Humberside makeover

Roots-rockers keep on keepin' on

Johnny Depp gets all Edwardian

Teen drama spotlights two talented newcomers

It all seems so oddly innocent, like a '90s Britpop update of Cliff's Summer Holiday capers. Essentially a glorified tour film, shot between 1991 and 1993, Star Shaped captures Blur at a major crossroads in their career, as they seek to shed the baggy influences of their debut album Leisure and reinvent themselves in response to the rise of grunge and their own ailing popularity in the UK. "The whole thing about pop music is you're ripping off as many people as you possibly can,"an improbably baby-faced Damon Albarn philosophises early on.