Reviews

Brilliant, ghostly alt.folk from New York

De La Soul producer enlists all-star cast to make third solo album

Former Smiths frontman picks the songs that saved his life

Live in LA with the occult metal gods at the peak of their mid-'70s powers

Unreleased tracks collated for Parisian house label

Rich portrait of a rebel artist

The first in Takashi Miike's career-making Triad Society Trilogy. Set in Tokyo's Shinjuku district, rogue cop Kippei Shiina puts himself between local yakuza and a gay Taiwanese mob; cue cocaine-fuelled blow jobs, anal rape and old ladies having their eyeballs plucked out. A Hollywood remake seems unlikely.

Underrated 1989 adaptation of Jay McInerney's seminal NY nightlife novel, riddled with "Bolivian marching powder", period electro-pop and a brave (though criticised) performance from Michael J Fox as a broken-hearted magazine fact-checker who's burning the candle at three ends. Kiefer Sutherland's a bad influence. Dryly comic, painfully candid.

Ice-cold thriller with a downhome feel from the Coen brothers

Long-serving US singer-songwriter much lauded by Steve Earle