Reviews

Various – Light Of Day: A Tribute To Bruce Springsteen

Double album of Boss cover versions

Joe Ely – Streets Of Sin

First studio outing in six years from recently-rejoined Flatlander

Kathryn Williams – Dog Leap Stairs

Recorded for pennies, her spectral, bewitching '99 debut available again

AC – DC

Monolithic early-years box set

Barely Legal

Clooney and the Coens return to screwball territory

Seabiscuit

OPENS OCTOBER 24, CERT PG, 141 MINS Seabiscuit was the little horse that could—a pop culture phenomenon in Depression-era America who won the 1937 Santa Anita Handicap against all odds and beguiled an ailing nation. Written off in his early years as a grumpy, awkward loser, Seabiscuit was trained for victory by three broken men: too-tall jockey Red Pollard (Tobey Maguire), tragic millionaire Charles Howard (Jeff Bridges) and washed-up cowboy Tom Smith (Chris Cooper).

Horror Roundup

Camp Crystal Lake reopens 20 years after the tragic death of young Jason Vorhees and no one is safe from the ingenious butchery. There's no hip hockey mask and few cute one-liners—just a catalogue of slaughter and a neat double-twist ending as director Sean Cunningham attempted to replicate the success of John Carpenter's Halloween.

Pink Floyd—The Dark Side Of The Moon

The latest in the excellent Classic Albums series turns to the Floyd's masterpiece—and given such dubious contenders as Meat Loaf and Judas Priest have already featured, the surprise is that it's taken this long. The hour-plus documentary follows the familiar mix of archive footage (ranging back to the early days with Syd Barrett) and current interviews, in which David Gilmour in particular comes across as hugely entertaining. And what makes it a classic album?

Sigmatropic – Sixteen Haiku & Other Stories

Star-crammed electro-mysticism from Greece's Akis Boyatzis

Sharon Shannon – Libertango

Former Watergirl's adventurous outing
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