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Chris Martin and co go from strength to strength on adventurous third

Stipe and co’s major label years, now repackaged with bonus DVD-audio discs and making-of documentaries

South Park creators tackle the War On Terror, via puppetry.

Lennon laid bare: seven unreleased tracks on this curate’s egg compilation.

Lashings of syrup from the selfless champion of good causes and queen of the lovesick

After the footsore Godzilla, Roland Emmerich gets his eye-catching world-trashing set-pieces on track again as stormy weather lays waste to planet Earth. Dennis Quaid and Jake Gyllenhaal are father and son wishing they'd worn bigger galoshes, and the 'message'is right-on (if inaccurate), but it's all about the gosh-wow effects.

IN 1981, IN MILPITAS, California, a 16-year-old boy raped and murdered his girlfriend. Over the next few days, he took friends on trips to see her corpse, left lying by the riverbank.

Since it's hard—and possibly verboten—to say a bad word about Tom Waits, unholy shaman of whacked-out Americana, I'll content myself with expressing a few mild reservations. From the startling departure of Swordfishtrombones—over 20 years old now—Tom's every subsequent move has been worth following with avid fascination. But with 2002's simultaneously released Alice and Blood Money, it seemed he was veering off into wilfully art-wank Hal Willner territory.

The former Screaming Tree gives a stupefying performance but, despite crowd rumours, has no need of an ambulance

Redundant remake of Michael Caine classic