Reviews

Texan renegade follows post-9/11 triumph Jerusalem with more political invective

Comic anti-hero Frank Castle on the big screen

France's answer to Mean Streets, Trainspotting and Do The Right Thing all rolled into one...

Recorded last December at the end of the 2003 world tour, it's spooky watching Gary Brooker singing "A Whiter Shade Of Pale" so many years after it scored 1967's summer of love. Yet his voice hasn't altered one iota. A third of the 21 tracks come from their 2003 album, The Well's On Fire. But it's old favourites like "Homburg", "Shine On Brightly" and "A Salty Dog" that command all the attention.

Cool crime thriller starring a homicide detective with dentures

Final four studio albums from da Brudders, with bonus tracks

Two-CD set of mainly live jazz-folk genius from early '70s to mid-'90s, plus DVD interview from last year

Reissued cod-metal from godfathers of The Darkness

Post-rock visionaries in their prime

Jim jarmusch's imminent set of dryly comic vignettes, filmed over the course of a decade, will pitch him to a new generation, as it features Jack and Meg White, Wu-Tang Clan (RZA scored Jarmusch's last film, Ghost Dog) and Steve Coogan among its cast. One of the better sequences sees Tom Waits and Iggy Pop mock-bickering over who's more famous, and both contribute to this studiously cool soundtrack.