Michael Bonner

Killing in the name of light entertainment. Hollywood's latest franchise begins...

The announcement came at the very end of last week that the novelist Alan Garner has written the third instalment of a story he began in 1960 with The Weirdstone Of Brisingamen. To anyone raised in the Seventies like me, the news might have prompted a sudden, sharp reconnection with their childhood; The Weirdstone, and its 1963 sequel The Moon Of Gomrath, were touchstones of my adolescent reading.

A sprightly Modfather, bringing it all back home on another career-high solo album...

Ken Russell's controversial classic, restored to its original glory...

Spirited art-rock from swashbuckling quartet...

The follow-up to Hadestown seals Mitchell’s pre-eminence...

Rousing fifth solo LP from peripatetic US maverick...

Okkervil River lifeboat sails into rockier waters...

Paul Schrader’s long unavailable ‘70s Viet vet revenge thriller now on DVD...

Edited highlights: a new 7CD/DVD 'Immersion' box set includes 64 demos from the archives...