THIS WEEK’S NEW RELEASES
1 [MUSIC] VILLAGERS – WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN ALL MY LIFE
CONOR O’Brien and his band reimagine songs from his previous three albums in this raw take on the ‘best of’.
2 [CINEMA] THE HATEFUL EIGHT
QUENTIN Tarantino’s latest sweary, violent Western epic stars Samuel L Jackson and Kurt Russell as bounty hunters who run into a bunch of unsavoury types while taking shelter from a blizzard in the middle of nowheresville.
3 [MUSIC] DAVID BOWIE – BLACKSTAR
IS there anything Bowie can’t do? After emerging from his ten-year hiatus with 2013’s thrilling The Last Day, he’s now gone and made a jazzy-electronic, art rock curio that’s as interesting and forwardthinking as it sounds.
4 [BLU-RAY] STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON
THE life and times of Dr Dre, Easy-E, Ice Cube and the other less wellknown lads in seminal gangster rap group NWA is brought to the big screen with lots of guns, drugs and rustling the LAPD’s jimmies.
5 [DVD] 45 YEARS
CHARLOTTE Rampling and Tom Courtenay star in this stellar drama about an ageing couple who get some life-changing news.
6 [BOOK] SIMON HALL – 1956, THE WORLD IN REVOLT
ELVIS Presley was driving music fans bananas, the Suez Crisis was kicking off, the USSR was flexing its muscles in Hungary while the Cuban revolution was in full swing. This is the tale of one crazy year.
7 [BLU-RAY] AND THEN THERE WERE NONE
AIDAN Turner took his top off in this stylish BBC adaptation of a Agatha Christie mystery which aired over the Christmas and starred a topnotch ensemble cast, all of whom were usurped by Aidan Turner’s chiselled abs.
8 [BOOK] RUBY WAX – A MINDFULNESS GUIDE FOR THE FRAZZLED
COMEDIENNE-turned-sassy-advice-guru Ruby Wax offers something different from the usually touchy-feely hokum with this witty guide to getting some contentment. 9 [MUSIC] HINDS – LEAVE ME ALONE PRECOCIOUS Spanish indiepop young ladies deliver a fun album of lo-fi, noisy tomfoolery.
10 [BOX-SET] TRUE DETECTIVE: SEASON 2
COLIN Farrell and Vince Vaughn did not have the ‘cool cachet’ as Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey for the second series – but it remained pretty gripping.