Reviews

Glee Is Good

Cardiff indie fusioneers' sixth album has all the usual humour and beauty

Chumbawamba – English Rebel Songs 1381-1984

Confident reworking of historical protest songs by anarcho-punksters

Sunshine And Shadows

Full-length debut from Australia's acclaimed dreampop/nu-country combo

Crazy Norse

Norwegian newcomer has lullabies to soothe but leaves an itch that needs scratching

Roxy Music – Live

The rapturous return of Commander Ferry and the finest space age rock band in the universe

Various Artists – Byrd Parts 2

Second volume of Byrds-related oddities, curios, rarities and essentials

Broken Wings

Israeli director's debut takes flight

Mon-Rak Transistor

Musical melodrama offers glimpse of Thai culture

Tortilla Soup

Maria Ripoll's handsome 2001 remake of Ang Lee's Eat Drink Man Woman is anchored by the highly watchable Hector Elizondo as the widowed kitchen maestro with three wayward daughters and a frisky neighbour (Raquel Welch) who clearly wants to turn him into a naked chef. The plot has been sweetened a little, but the performances are fine and the photography sumptuous.

Insomnia

Memento man Christopher Nolan's elegant cop drama with Al Pacino magnificently muted as the hollow-eyed LA cop, sent to Alaska to hunt a killer and forming a strange relationship with Robin Williams' skin-crawlingly ingratiating psycho.
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