Reviews

Subtle seafaring actioner set during the Napoleonic wars

Third fantastic album by the Swiss glitch situationists

Athens, GA septet deliver eloquently dreamscaped stopgap LP

Welsh neo-psych gang's most recent album gets the remix treatment

Essentially a Transatlantic label sampler of folksy recordings from the '60s and '70s

Timely portrait of a Haitian human rights activist

Cynical lapsed communist Daniel Auteuil gets lost driving through a dark forest, and encounters haughty bilingual seductress Kristin Scott Thomas. An episodic shaggy dog story ensues, sprayed with romance and bleak jokes. Pascal Bonitzer writes/directs a unique, odd mystery which is splendidly acted by all. Let's face it, if you're casting a haughty bilingual seductress, Kristin's your woman.

IN 1966, ROGER CORMAN MADE an offer to young assistant Peter Bogdanovich that the wannabe director couldn't refuse. Corman had two days left to run on a contract with Boris Karloff, and the challenge was this: use that time to film 20 minutes of new material with the veteran actor, edit in another 20 minutes of Karloff footage from Corman's The Terror, shoot another 40 minutes with other actors, then stitch the lot together. The result was Bogdanovich's first and, arguably, greatest movie.

First part of Tarantino's kick-ass grindhouse homage testifies to his awesome directorial development

Long-awaited return of New England philosophy major-cum-troubadour