Reviews

Debut album from James and Carly's boy

Soulful blood steps into the evolution and creativity bag

35 B-sides and rarities, with two unreleased tracks, on two CDs

Anthologising nearly-lost gems from Lora Logic's arty post-punk outfit

Tough-minded Billy Connolly theological rom-com

Mobster melodrama for girls

Pristine restoration of Bruce Lee's only movie as star, director, writer and producer, released to mark the 30th anniversary of his death. He's a country boy come to the city, in this case Rome, where he must kung-fu kick the collective badass of gangsters trying to take over a Chinese restaurant. Not Lee's best, but it does have nunchakus and that great, no-frills fight with a hairy Chuck Norris in the Colosseum.

Shaving a hefty 75 minutes off Tarkovsky's original (and ponderous) 1972 sci-fi classic, director/writer/cinematographer/editor Steven Soderbergh delivers a tight, punchy fable about a crippled space station, a glowing planet, a terrified crew, a lonely psychiatrist (Clooney) and the memories of loss that bind them together. The moods here are both melancholic and thought provoking, while Soderbergh regular Cliff Martinez's lightly tintinnabulating score is utterly beguiling.

Third album from Detroit blues exponents and White Stripes chums

Dublin-based quartet with Gemma Hayes, Frames and Mundy associations release second disc