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Return of the Mac—another crazy episode in the longest-running soap opera in rock'n'roll

The band inevitably dubbed the "Japanese Kraftwerk"

DIRECTED BY Bernardo Bertolucci STARRING Michael Pitt, Eva Green, Louis Garrel Opens February 6, Cert 18, 115 mins Film buffs have never looked less sexy than they do in Bertolucci's curiously distant rendering of Paris in May 1968. True, the film buffs in question spend most of their time lounging naked, playing psycho-sexual mind games and rutting feverishly. And yes, all three stars (Pitt, Garrel and, in particular, Green) are undeniably easy on the eye—something Bertolucci is at pains to stress with lots of salivating camera lingering on flesh.

Julia Roberts teaches posh girls to be defiant

Reissued best-of follows renewed interest in scabrous post-punk politicos

With a new LP imminent, the Minnesota-based folk-country boy reissues albums two and three

A masterpiece of rap's golden age, now with second CD of extras

Conceived as a black Woodstock in '72, an act of healing seven years after LA's Watts district had been all but burned down in race riots to the chanting of "burn, baby, burn", Wattstax was also, in truth, a masterful idea for a showcase of all the Stax acts of the time. Still, hell of a concert—112,000 people watched seven hours of Isaac Hayes, The Staple Singers, The Bar-Kays, Rufus Thomas etc, and a legend was born.

John Grisham adaptation asks searching questions

Your basic Siamese twins vs Cher rom-com