Ten years after

Shimmering performance by the Mother Superior of country rock

Kevin Rowland's legendary rabble-rousers make a triumphant live return

All four movies from the interstellar belly-bursting-baddie franchise in extended form, plus five discs of extras

Who'd have thought after the debacle of Velvet Goldmine that Todd Haynes' next film would be as clever, meaningful and powerfully resonant as this masterpiece of stylised social commentary? In the 1950s, the expatriate German director Douglas Sirk directed a series of Hollywood films that at the time were sniffily known as "women's pictures", which only later were recognised as brilliantly crafted satires, as sharply observed as novels like Revolutionary Road, Richard Yates' classic dissection of the Eisenhower years.

Neo-realist classic of the Algerian Revolution more relevant than ever

Belated but brilliant follow-up to Choochtown from one-man Angry Brigade and Uncut columnist

Fourth album in 20 years from Giant Sand's twisted country cousin

I know what you're thinking. Oh Lord, what's McCartney doing now? What desperate revisionism is he foisting on a Lennon-free world? Now calm down.

Follow-up documentary about notorious US female serial killer

Re-emergence of jazz-folk classic from Chicago tunesmith