Ant bee

Former Baby Bird man delves deeply into his love/hate relationship with television

George Clooney's stylised spy drama based on the unreliable memoirs of Gong Show host Chuck Barris

The avant-garde Bee Gee goes boldly into the realms of R&B

Dark secrets exposed in intense three-hander

Bret Easton Ellis' cult novel filmed by former Tarantino collaborator

Marvel strikes cinematic gold again with dark and exuberant superhero blockbuster No 3

Critic-charming, visually sumptuous tribute to the work of Sirk

Ex-Pumpkin head pulps up the volume with his reinvented gang of 'glamadelic' grungesters

DA Pennebaker, that eminent celluloid chronicler of live rock (Don't Look Back, Down From The Mountain), filmed the farewell Ziggy show (July 3, 1973, Hammersmith Odeon), and now Tony Visconti's remixed the soundtrack for a 30th anniversary double CD special edition (the film's out on DVD, too). Bowie's between-song banter is included for the first time, most notably the big bold brouhaha of the bye-bye speech. And "The Width Of A Circle" is present in all its noisy, unedited, 16-minute glory.

Jesse Malin THE BORDERLINE, LONDON TUESDAY JANUARY 21 2003 "Just wait til see you me with my fuckin' band, man," Jesse Malin had said backstage at the Royal Festival Hall, after opening solo and acoustic for Ryan Adams last November. And he wasn't kidding. He's flanked by two razor-sharp dudes who look like they walked out of a remake of West Side Story, but turn out to be bassist Johnny Pisano and guitarist Johnny Rocket. It may just be a trick of the light, but keyboardist Joe McGinty is sporting what looks suspiciously like a black eye.