This debut effort from the man who wrote the screenplay for Heath Ledger's 'Ned Kelly' is an enjoyable, if derivative, comic romp.

Currently on tour with the Foo Fighters, Mariachi El Bronx is the Latin-cum-mariachi guise of rowdy and reckless Los Angeles punk band the Bronx.

As debut soundtracks go, this one created for action-packed thriller and on-the-run film Hanna is a fittingly peppy, primed piece of sonic adrenaline.

Peter Calder reviews The Tree of Life, an enthralling but only sporadically engaging, new film by the American maestro Malick, which he says is an ambitious but disappointing work.

Although "surf rock" sounds a limiting description, echoing guitar twang can equally conjure up wide-open dry spaces or brooding spaghetti westerns.

The first comedy-drama to be produced by and starring Steve Carell since his exit from the television show The Office, features a fabulous cast doing their best with a script that's quietly amusing rather than laugh-out-loud funny.

From the amusing band name through their swooning post-REM pop-rock, this fine and play-loud album so adeptly juggles Tom Petty/Byrds, slacker alt rock and post-grunge 90s pop that you can't help but like it.

The thing about the movies that we've never got over is that they move. In doing so, they evoke a facsimile of life better than life itself. Even the "fractured flickers" of the early cinema commanded an instant suspension of disbelief.

This long out-of-print package - made up of a four-hour DVD, 16-track CD and 100-page book - gets a reissue eight years on and tells the story of Coxsone Dodd and Studio One, the Jamaican label he founded in 1963, all over again.

With the new album by nomadic Tuareg band Tinariwen (from Mali) released soon, this album by fellow Tuareg guitarist and songwriter Bombino (from Niger) is an ideal companion piece for fans of trancey and eerie African desert blues.

Subtitled, "Maori Showbands, Balladeers and Pop Stars", this 50-track collection arrives right on cue.

It's something of an irony that Billy T James' big breakthrough - which is to say his first star turn on television - had him cast as a poncy English twit by the name of Dexter Fitzgibbons.

I'm not entirely sure that this sleek and classy Italian psychological thriller plays fair with its audience. But I'm even less sure that if I watched it a dozen times I'd be able to spot the moments when it cheated.

They've tried to stay a bit of an enigma, Wu Lyf. The Manchester four-piece declined to be interviewed and just turned up and writhed around in front of curious crowds.