Big star

Shane's grinning Death Angel and his (fairly good) Nashville country album

Oddball two-dimensional anti-hero Harvey Pekar comes to the big screen

Bleak British comedy from Dogme defectors is brave and affecting

There's something novel about this concept: the soundtrack of a book. While the realistic word for it is probably "cross-marketing", the hapless dreamers among us can ponder: are we supposed to listen to the relevant song while reading Hornby's chapter on it? Even if we don't possess posh headphones like the pretty model on the sleeve (entirely inappropriate unless the album is also a bottle of conditioner), are we to aim for a music-literature 'synergy' experience? I've just tried skimming Little Dorrit while headbanging to lggy and, frankly, it doesn't work.

Norwegian psychological thriller which starts slowly but soon has its hooks in you so deep you daren't move. With shades of Harry, He's Here To Help, it involves a couple rediscovering an old friend, but after lust rears its head, death follows close behind. Harrowingly acted by the three leads, unknowns who remind you how clichéd the big names are.

Modfather becomes third in celebrity compilation series

Brando stars in and directs whopping, overlooked 1961 western that cries out for iconic status

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

DIRECTED BY Ridley Scott STARRING Sigourney Weaver, John Hurt, Ian Holm, Yaphet Kotto, Hatry Dean Stanton Opened October 31, Cert 15, 115 mins Scott's franchise-launching 1979 future-shocker is one of those rare, pure, primal films that works as both highbrow modern myth and trouser-soiling midnight movie.

First full review of 39-track follow-up to Stankonia from fractured hip hop duo