Reviews

Twenty-five international cuts of late-'60s underground mod beat

Limited edition box (500 only) from Manhattan's anti-folk king

Norwegian avant-hardcore. With viola. You couldn't make it up

Mark Olson and Victoria Williams join the Bush hunt

Quirky, evocative Thai-Japanese co-production

After pushing Emily Watson and Björk through relentless pain and suffering in previous films, Lars Von Trier mercilessly harasses glutton-for-punishment Nicole Kidman in another sprawling, love-it-or-hate-it lo-fi epic. She's a mystery woman on the run who shelters with a curious community, only for the comfort to sour. Paul Bettany, Lauren Bacall and Chloë Sevigny look puzzled

In October 1992, Brazil's notorious São Paulo Detention Centre—aka Carandiru—erupted in a full-scale riot which left 111 inmates brutally slaughtered by trigger-happy military police. Director Hector Babenco's movie charts the events that led to the uprising, using the arrival, some 12 years earlier, of Drauzio Varella, a doctor employed by the authorities to quell the rapidly rising AIDS epidemic in the facility, as our entry point into the story of this hellish, overcrowded facility.

Back in the early 1990s, Seal had edge, dreadlocks and songs. Shot on tour after his debut album had just won him a clutch of Brit awards, he looks armed and dangerous during an explosive set that includes a positively homicidal version of "Hey Joe". What on earth went wrong?

A retrospective of pre-rock'n'roll Americana across three CDs

Ian McLagan-compiled four-CD box from ultimate '70s boogie'n'ballads lad-band. Dedicated to Ronnie Lane