Reviews

The Shadows – The Essential Collection

Their finest moments, plus a few of their worst ones

Jimmy McCracklin – I Had To Get With It

Era-bridging blues-soul, including rap sample regular "Dog"

Campag Velocet – It’s Beyond Our Control

Cycling fanatics return after five years with a darker, edgier but no less eccentric sound

Archie Bronson Outfit – Fur

Debut from London-based trio offers a refreshingly catholic take on alt.country/garage blues

Infinite Livez – Bush Meat

What-the-FUCK debut from the Spike Milligan of British rap

Getting Off Their Cloud

The second of three volumes of vintage Stones singles and B-sides

Before Sunset

DIRECTED BY Richard Linklater STARRING Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy Opens July 30, Cert 15, 80 mins Released in 1995, Richard Linklater's Eurodrama Before Sunrise was a charming holiday romance, a post-grunge Brief Encounter. Reuniting the same actors/characters nine years on, this sequel feels more like a Lost In Translation for the Middle Youth generation, with the same tone but higher emotional stakes.

1000 Months

Likeable Moroccan comedy-drama

The Dirty Dozen

Robert Aldrich's most profitable movie presents war as mean-spirited farce: Major Lee Marvin offers a bunch of jailed WWII Gls—including John Cassavetes, Telly Savalas, Charles Bronson and Donald Sutherland—the chance to join him on a suicide mission into Occupied France. The movie wastes its greatest actor, Robert Ryan, but it's a relentless work—violent, funny and deeply cynical.

Keep It In The Family

Startling documentary about an American family torn apart by sexual scandal
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