Aut aut

Stonesy blues from White Stripes' backyard

Another immaculate chapter in Ry Cooder's Technicolor Cuban adventure

Extraordinary, inspired madness from the Being John Malkovich team

Further helpings of articulate and soulful intensity from highly-acclaimed British singer-songwriter on the follow-up to his Mercury Prize-nominated debut from 2001, Here Be Monsters

Jane Campion's second film (1990) tells the life story of Janet Frame, a New Zealand author who overcame poverty, chronic shyness and (misdiagnosed) schizophrenia to achieve international acclaim. Kerry Fox stars, while Campion hones her own stylistic match of trippy fantasy and gauche intimacy. Earnest, with detours into the ethereal. DVD EXTRAS: Three interviews with Campion, filmographies, trailer, biography of Janet Frame.

Third LP from Aussie four-piece ditches country twang for subtly shaded pop

Patchy South African drama from 2000 in which an actor, landing a role as a Soweto gangster, asks an authentic underworld figure and old school friend to show him the ropes of crime and carjacking. Lines get blurred. Director Oliver Schmitz makes some still-valid points about race and class issues, but it's no Bullets Over Broadway.

Bleak second outing for Mercury/Brit-nominated songsmith

Achronological compilation with titular reference to album's length. Includes three new tracks

Soderbergh does sci-fi; Clooney does soul-searching