Reviews

Truly wonderful Japanese black comedy about a nice family who open a quiet B&B in the mountains, only to watch all their guests accidentally perish in increasingly macabre ways. Utterly barking stuff, this has something for everyone—surreal musical numbers with dancing zombies, claymation sequences and an exploding volcano! With movies like this around, who needs drugs?

Press faves deliver diamond-hard art-pop

Breathtaking third album from Brixton house heroes. Mad, actually

First new recordings from the 'Lab since tragic death of Mary Hansen last year

Business as usual for loveable Luddite

Partial return to form from Afghan Whigs lynchpin Greg Dulli

Two-disc, 30-track retrospective of enigmatic solo artist's hits and rarities

New Jersey quartet's 1988 power-pop classic revived

Drugged-up road movie set for instant cult status

Howard Hawks' last western stars John Wayne and Jorge Rivero as former Civil War enemies who unite to battle a corrupt sheriff and a land-grabbing crook, aided by medicine show gal Jennifer O'Neill. It's a minor work, but likeable—the Duke's on fine form, Leigh Brackett's dialogue is snappy and there's a nice cameo by the reliably eccentric Jack Elam.