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Album Review: The Kills, Blood Pressures
The antagonism is still there and Alison Mosshart and Jamie Hince let it ricochet off one another.

Album Review: TV on the Radio, Nine Types of Light
These New York art rock oddballs have quite a pedigree to uphold following three of the most twisted, yet captivating, albums of the past decade.

Movie Review: Another Year
After the uncharacteristically sanguine Happy Go Lucky, the master of bleak British social realism returns to downbeat form in a film whose confusions of perspective are perhaps provocatively deliberate.

Album Review: Scratch 22, Distance From View
The sinewy riffs, slightly breathless beats, and squally Eastern psychedelia influence of Window Rattle off Distance From View is the perfect example of how instrumental music can take a mundane image and make it magical.

Movie Review: Heartbreaker
Unabashedly commercial, outrageously predictable, this blockbuster French rom-com, is also irresistibly self-confident.

Movie Review: Mars Needs Moms
Based on the book by Berkeley Breathed, this 3D sci-fi adventure is another performance-capture animation from Robert Zemeckis, the producer of Polar Express, Beowulf and A Christmas Carol.

Movie Review: Arthur
This modern-day remake of the 1981 classic romantic comedy Arthur should be well received by fans of Russell Brand; what fans of the original film starring Dudley Moore will make of it is another matter.

Concert Review: Bruno Mars, Vector Arena
Bruno Mars' enamoured young crowd sings his lyrics right back at him, but none with more conviction than "I think I wanna marry you".

Movie Review: Paul
E.T.: The Extraterrestrial and the funny-looking aliens in Close Encounters of the Third Kind have been given a run for their money in the peculiar guise of Paul, a potty-mouthed ode to Steven Spielberg's sci-fi epics.

Book Review: <i>The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake</i>
Mixing reality and fantasy with little help given to the reader makes an odd book - but it's no lemon.

Book Review: <i>Other People's Money</i>
It would be very easy in these economically grim times to write novels casting bankers in the harshest of lights - simple moustache-twisting pantomime villains.

Movie Review: The Illusionist
Chomet's follow-up to his idiosyncratic The Triplets of Belleville is a wistful animated valentine to the days of the variety entertainers that is also a kind of love story.

Album Review: Paul Simon, So Beautiful or So What
In the liner notes Elvis Costello says this album should be counted alongside the finest of Simon's career (now reaching almost 50 years).

Album Review: Aaron Neville, I Know I've Been Changed
Aaron Neville saying he's been changed is hardly news and nor is his soulful, vibrating falsetto, which is given a florid showcase in the long intro to the gospel-cum-R&B opener Stand By Me.

Movie Review: Mozart's Sister
An extremely enjoyable period drama that speculatively fills in the gaps in the ignored life of a sidelined sibling, this independent French production achieves miracles on a reportedly tiny production budget.

Movie Review: Just Go With It
Just Go With It is a good way to approach this average romantic comedy from long-time collaborators Adam Sandler and director Dennis Dugan (Happy Gilmore, You Don't Mess with the Zohan).

Movie Review: Sarah's Key
The past catches up with the present to potent and sometimes shattering effect in this moving French film that hints at the wartime horrors it revisits without ever explicitly depicting them.

Album Review: Foo Fighters, Wasting Light
Somehow Dave Grohl's second famous band went from his post-Nirvana solo outing to stadium giants.

Album Review: Ghost Wave, Ghost Wave
With some of the momentum of the Clean, urgent droning vocals and pure psychedelic guitar jangle, this debut EP by Auckland-based three-piece Ghost Wave touches a lot of familiar places.

Book Review: <i>In The Company Of Angels</i>
Copenhagen in the early 1990s. Bernardo Greene is a patient at a Clinic for Torture Victims. In his native Chile, he'd been tortured for two years by the Pinochet regime.

Book Review: <i>The Invisible Bridge</i>
Julie Orringer’s first book, a stunning short-story collection entitled How To Breathe Underwater, was a New York Times notable book.