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This fictitious backstory to the creation of Vermeer's best-known painting looks so impressive, and so precisely mimics the colours the 17th-century Dutchman used, it's a while before you realise it's just a prissy costume drama starring Colin Firth and pouty Scarlett Johansson. A dainty tale of repressed lust, perfectly pitched at its middlebrow audience.

First CD release for forgotten '71 psych-folk masterpiece from short-lived Aussie group

This belated sequel to 2002's triple-album retrospective Love God Murder features 18 songs that might easily have fitted under one or another of that set's individual headings. Not, perhaps, "Murder"—the only death here is that of the Native American hero of Peter LaFarge's "Ballad Of Ira Hayes", a war hero allowed to fall into alcoholism and ignominy after he'd helped raise that iconic flag at Iwo Jima—but certainly "Love" and "God".

First part of Tarantino's kick-ass grindhouse homage testifies to his awesome directorial development

Essentially a Transatlantic label sampler of folksy recordings from the '60s and '70s

The mould-breaking Nashville singer-songwriter gets a marvellous best-of

The Orrible Oo's classic video jukebox rockumentary gets a 25th anniversary makeover

BUSH HALL, LONDON Monday March 1, 2004 Rouse closes the first of two nights here with a version of Neil Young's "For The Turnstiles" so intense and intimate that when he sings the line "though your confidence may be shattered" we all inwardly go "uh-oh",and when he adds "it doesn't matter" we all go "phew, what a relief". His crowd are rapt throughout, whooping at every intro like he's just won the Superbowl.

Astonishing documentary about hijacking in Brazil

Formulaic sure-fire hit couples cricket and racism