Reviews

Jeffrey Lewis – It’s The Ones Who’ve Cracked That The Light Shines Through

Second LP from NYC anti-folk scenester

The Vanity Set – Little Stabs Of Happiness

Second from Nick Cave drummer's side project

Blue Cheer – Vincebus Eruptum

First two albums from late-'60s Frisco proto-grungesters notorious for being "loudest band on the planet"

Hoover Street Revival

Documentary about a South Central LA church

Catch Me If You Can

After the ponderous Al and the not-as-clever-as-it-thought-it-was Minority Report, Spielberg delivers a sleek, slick 1960s-set caper movie based on a true story, with Leonardo DiCaprio as the teen con artist attempting to stay one step ahead of Tom Hanks' FBI agent. Leo's smug, Hanks is nerdish, but Spielberg carries off the action with flair.

The Family Way – Accident

The Family Way sees squeaky-clean Hayley Mills as the perfect daughter to real-life dad John in this cautionary 1966 tale of a young married couple struggling with financial hardships and the apparently grim realities of married life. Accident, on the other hand, is a brooding psychodrama, written by Harold Pinter, directed by Joseph Losey and starring Dirk Bogarde as a tragic philosophy professor obsessed by Jacqueline Sassard's voluptuous student.

Slap Her, She’s French

Totally rubbish teen comedy which sees a French girl (Coyote Ugly's Piper Perabo) invading Texas and fiendishly ruining the life of star cheerleader Jane McGregor. Not content with being bland and dull, its national stereotyping stops just short of "cheese-eating surrender monkeys" gags.

This Month In Americana

Grammy-winning songwriter reveals his roots

The Lonesome Organist – Form And Follies

Clever but irritating one-man band from Chicago

The Warlocks – Phoenix

Drug-induced jams from Californian rockers
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