Reviews

Another pop classic from Prince of Pioneer Valley

Liverpudlian stalwart plays the solo card but loses the trick

Second album from Bristol-based rock-dance crew

Business as usual for much-derided dadrockers

Now That's Not What I Call Goth

Boisterous live recording from 1963

Elegant cast elevates French tragi-comedy

Tub-thumping story of how America conquered the final frontier

Susan Sarandon and Goldie Hawn ham it up energetically in this surprisingly perceptive, punchy comedy about where groupies go when younger rock chicks muscle them out. Hawn wants to keep headbanging in leather, Sarandon's primly settled in beige, Geoffrey Rush is a celibate writer caught in Goldie's slipstream. No more syrupy than Almost Famous.

Following what's now uniformly referred to as "the events of 9/11", producer Alain Brigand invited 11 respected directors to each make a reactive film lasting eleven minutes, nine seconds and one frame. Among the diverse responses, the most intriguing come from Ken Loach, Claude Lelouch, Alejandro González Iñárritu and Sean Penn.