Reviews

A recent landmark in US indie cinema, writer/director Richard Kelly's feature debut is a mind-warping rites-of-passage tale with a striking central performance from Jake Gyllenhaal as the troubled teen trying to make sense of time travel conundrums in smalltown USA circa 1988. Exceptional.

No stranger to stage dramatics, Peter Gabriel created one of rock's great spectacles on 1993's "Secret World" tour. Seen by over a million people across five continents, only U2 and the Stones have rivalled it for theatrical excess. Robert LePage's stage designs still astound—and a still youthful-looking Gabriel matches them with his own charismatic presence on songs like "Sledgehammer".

Directed by Roland Jofféand elegantly scripted by Robert Bolt, with a landmark score by Ennio Morricone, this follows Robert De Niro's ex-mercenary and Jeremy Irons' Jesuit priest during violent 18th-century South American land-grabbing. And still, there's always been something disturbing about the way the movie so eagerly endorses the underlying missionary project.

Second full LP from emo icons, with one new song. Plus Unplugged DVD

Pro Tools-engineered collection and the Welsh legend's first new material since 1996's Walking On Locusts

Prog-rock magic from the original 'ethereal' enigmas

Return of LA's My Bloody Valentine

Welsh alt.rockers attempt to recast themselves as soul-funk heavyweights

Essential chronicle of 1977-81 punk-dub soundclash

Smartarse new-wave Canucks re-release sprightly electro-punk debut