Reviews

Down-home comeback by Alabama maverick. Little Feat's Bill Payne guests

Manchester trio deliver second album of wonderfully wistful, perfectly underplayed pop

A future greatest hits compilation from the hip hop producers with the keys to the kingdom

Second wave hip hop pioneers, unfairly best known for donating a little bit of that hip to Aerosmith

Playing patience under African skies

With untenable Leone motifs and broad comedy caricatures, this final part of Shane Meadows' "Midlands Trilogy" (after Twenty-Four Seven and A Room For Romeo Brass) is a disappointment. Robert Carlyle is solid as the Glaswegian rogue determined to win back ex-partner Shirley Henderson. Yet, despite a re-shot 'dramatic' ending, it feels slight.

Burr Steers' debut as writer-director is perhaps a little too self-consciously off-kilter, but the film's humour is satisfyingly sour and the performances of a large ensemble cast are impeccable. Pitched somewhere between the macabre and the merely eccentric, Igby stars a convincingly debauched Kieran Culkin as the film's eponymous rebellious teen.

William Wyler's 1955 suspense classic, later remade by Michael Cimino, finds Humphrey Bogart frowning and sweating as only he can (in a role first played on stage by Paul Newman). Three on-the-run cons hold a family hostage in their home, but after plenty of mind games, the suburbanites outfox them. Humph had done it better in Key Largo, but it still crackles gamely.

Slow-burning second album from Toby Burke's equine three-piece

Hitman who provided lavish productions for Frankie and Tatu oversees cult Scots' fifth album proper