Reviews

Anniversary package from independent dance label with chart aspirations

DIRECTED BY Eli Roth STARRING Jordan Ladd, Rider Strong, James DeBello, Cerina Vincent Opens October 10, Cert 15, 90 mins David Lynch protégé Eli Roth has been planning this, his gore-soaked debut, for 10 years. It's some labour of love.

Coens' gangster-movie homage is a dark, off-kilter twister

Generally hailed as Renoir's 'unfinished masterpiece', this sad, lyrical short from 1946 is based on a Guy de Maupassant story. A young girl finds a quasi-romance after wandering off from her picnicking family near the Seine. It's all about Renoir's impressionistic eye for nature and the transience of innocence: a personal, poetic work which now, extended, looks better than ever.

They may not be the most charismatic bunch ever to tread a rock'n'roll stage, but Doves sure know how to put on a fine show. Recorded live in the extraordinary location of the Eden Project in Cornwall during the summer of 2002, the Manchester trio storm through a rousing set of uplifting tunes, in which "Pounding" and "There Goes The Fear", from their latest album, The Last Broadcast, are inevitably the highlights. EXTRAS: Arguably even better than the main feature.

Mr Cooper's attempt to teach the garage-rock whipper-snappers a thing or two

Second album from Laurence Fishburne-approved Philadelphia hip hop quartet

Mogwai-endorsed noisecore ferocity from Japan

Stunning two-disc live set from recent dates in Toronto and Bloomington, Indiana. Accompanying DVD to follow

Glasgow platinum-shifters ring (albeit subtle) changes for their fourth long-player