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

Legendary single-a-month scam from indie stalwarts revisited

More brilliantly bilious dispatches from This England

Scottish cult hero's first since 2001's Creatures Of Light And Darkness

Second album from Italian-American enigmas, produced by Kevin Shields

Entire studio output of psychedelic orch-pop band on CD for first time

Three Hollywood favourites starring the silver-tongued man of style

Clint Eastwood's classic final word on the western genre

A stand-out hit among the current new wave of globally fê ted Latin American features, Fabián Bielinsky's fine caper thriller fucks with audience perception like a pumped-up David Mamet puzzler. A motley team of conmen and crooked cops progress from petty shop swindles to plan a rare stamp heist, but as the stakes escalate and the cast of characters broadens, nagging questions about who's hoodwinking who throw up dazzling wheels within wheels.

DIRECTED BY David Cronenberg STARRING Ralph Fiennes, Miranda Richardson, Gabriel Byrne, Lynn Redgrave Opens January 3, Cert 15, 99 mins Over the years, with films like Rabid, Videodrome, Crash and eXistenZ, we've come to expect eerie, special-effects-laden, futuristic horror fare from David Cronenberg. His latest is a sinister but understated study of a schizophrenic (Ralph Fiennes) known only by his childhood nickname of Spider. The film opens in the 1980s with Spider checking into a grim halfway house in a run-down area of east London after 20 years in psychiatric care.