Reviews

Neil Labute adapts an AS Byatt novel and rather blots his edgy image. It follows Gwyneth Paltrow and Aaron Eckhart through Yorkshire and Paris as they uncover the personal secrets of a late-Victorian poet. Labute's emasculated in the company of academics, and the overall tone's uncertain and vague.

Saucy street-funk from the dream-life of Riley

Best album in years from British eccentric

Former Lone Justice leader turned solo artist returns with her first studio album in seven years

Bernard Herrmann. To any soundtrack devotee the name's sacred. From Psycho to Taxi Driver, his music made good movies great and great movies greater. Here he even caused a rubbish film to linger in the collective memory. Flying saucers and robots were '50s cinema staples, spawned by a real public fear of science (in the aftermath of the atomic bomb). Robert Wise's 1951 sci-fi message movie (war is bad) would today look more hilarious than it does were it not for Herrmann's tonal and symmetrical score. Conducted by Joel McNeely, here it's been recorded in digital sound for the first time.

Intriguing, literate return by '60s folk icon

Classic albums re-released with many bonus tracks

Fine if sometimes obscure music-making from fiery Scots legend

Lavish best-of for classic late-'60s funk band

Meaty debut from Tartan Tarantino