Reviews

Faithfully rendered psych-pop, 14 years after the event

Latest soppy Kate Hudson vehicle— you have to wonder what her Black Crowes hubby makes of it all— features an eclectic pop selection, with a few little smashers more by accident than design. Devo's "Whip It" and Liz Phair's "Extraordinary" are about as daring as it gets, while there are decent if overtly radio-friendly offerings from John Hiatt and Joan Osborne, plus the resurrected Simon & Garfunkel's too-cute-to-shoot "At The Zoo".

Third set from Sussex singer-songwriter following last year's widely acclaimed From Every Sphere

The most Californian band in Dublin turn their heads homewards

Hits and misses on the Modfather's first album of cover versions

'Superfluous' Ash lady proves she was born to be in the band

Notorious, long-delayed Korean shocker

Damning documentary on American fast-food overkill cuts to the bone

The old warhorse's socio-political eco-musical in miniature

Alejandro González Iñárritu's follow-up to Amores Perros is an agonisingly bleak film about death and the apparent pointlessness of things, with a dying Sean Penn getting involved with distraught widow Naomi Watts and Benicio Del Toro's sweaty born-again ex-con. Highly charged, intensely acted but eventually somewhat predictable.