Reviews

Southern-boy sensations experience growing pains on difficult second album

Not quite Fellini at his most brilliantly enigmatic, but the movie that made his name. Christ is helicoptered out of Rome while the city decays into a listless Sodom for the international jet set; Marcello Mastroianni plays the louche hack carrying too much ennui to write a novel, documenting the party people's jaded adventures for local scandal sheets, worried his soul is dying. The decadence looks tame today, but it still has Anita Ekberg in the fountain.

Fine naturalistic drama from Tajikistan

Scintillating songs let down by clumsy visuals

Well chosen overview of the ultimate Cali troubadour

Stanley The Steamer's Soho showcase

Deluxe edition of their breakthrough album, with a CD of outtakes

So gargantuan a behemoth is this whole franchise that even we head-shaking non-believers can recognise the commercial import of these releases. The 3D "lenticular" images on the sleeves are doing my eyes in, but I'll retain the composure to report that John Williams' bombastic scores for the three original Star Wars films are here repackaged (either as box set or three doubles) and digitally remastered. You get archival bonus tracks, posters, screensavers and various Internet links.

Reg's unexpected winning streak continues

Brian Wilson's stage foil steps up