Seen The Light When a priest is infected with vampiric blood, the first vow to go out the window is the vow of chastity. Stephen Tan reviews Thirst, where Korean Park Chan-wook stands some vampire movie conventions on their head. Click here And They Never Lived Happily Ever After If cinema is the land of make believe and where things come up smelling like roses, it is homosexuals who seem to be having a hard time there as in real life. And in Scud's quasi-autobiographical Permanent Residence, gays are never gay (in the end...). Stephen Tan reviews. Click here Tentacle Love The story and action might be comic-book inspired but when it comes to tentacle sex, Yo Kobayashi's La Blue Girl: Revenge Of The Sex Demon King certainly delivers the goods. Stephen Tan reviews. Click here Click here for more articles

New ROIOs* James Taylor - Jabberwocky 1970 T Rex - When I Need TV I Got T Rex: Vol 2 The Curfew At The Crack Of Night T Rex - When I Need TV I Got T Rex: Vol 3 Fleetfoot Voodoo Man Emiliana Torrini - Hamburg 2009 Lynyrd Skynyrd - Cape Cod, MA, 1976: Dan Lampinski Tape Vol 13 Rolling Stones - Through The Vaults Darkly: No Spare Parts Vol 2 Rolling Stones - Through The Vaults Darkly: The Last Time Vol 3 Rickie Lee Jones - World Cafe Live 2009 Kansas - Providence, RI, 1976: Dan Lampinski Tape Vol 23 Cliff Richard & The Shadows - Wembley 2009 Robert Wyatt - Rimbaud's A Season In Hell T Rex - When I Need TV I Got T Rex: Vol 1 Great Hits From The Box T Rex - When I Need TV I Got T Rex: Vol 4 Supersonic Years David Murray & Milford Graves - Guelph Fest, Ontario 2009 Hiromi & Sonicbloom - Paris 2009 Bad Company - Providence, RI, 1976: Dan Lampinski Tape Vol 22 Jeff Beck w/Jan Hammer Band - Cape Cod, MA, 1976: Dan Lampinski Tape Vol 14 Rosanne Cash - World Cafe Live, 2009 *Recordings of indeterminate origin Click here for complete list DVD Archive Of Rare Films Taylor Swift - Saturday Night Live S35E05, November 2009 Emiliana Torrini - Hamburg 2009 Top Of The Pops - May and June 1976 VARIOUS - Musikladen Episodes 39 & 40 Cat Stevens - BBC In Concert 1971: 2009 Edition Elvis Costello - Austin City Limits 2009 VARIOUS - 43rd Country Music Awards 2009 The Damned - Stolen X Files #29: Live in London John Fogerty - Live By Request 2009 Willie Nelson and Asleep At The Wheel - Austin City Limits 2009 Bryan Adams - Rock Im Park, Germany 1999 Duffy/ Sarah McLachlan - Austin City Limits 2008 Later With Jools Holland - Series 35 Show 8: HD source Okkervil River - Austin City Limits 2009 Bruce Springsteen - A Secret History: BBC 1998 Taylor Swift - Video Clips 2008-2009 M Ward - Austin City Limits 2009 Top Of The Pops - April and May 1976 The Who - Cow Palace 1973 ROIO Of The Week Neil Young - Attack Of The Bonus Tracks [no label, 3CD] Outtakes, demos, live recordings from 1965 to 1989. Quality varies from good to excellent stereo. Long may you run and Young wasn't joking. Click here to find out more and to download free MP3s. Audio

A Bounty For Blair's Arrest Writer and Guardian columnist George Monbiot is so incensed by Tony Blair's efforts to wage war on Iraq that he has launched a new fund - www.arrestblair.org – to reward those who attempt to arrest the former British prime minister. Click here The Limits Of Multiculturalism Former Talking Head David Byrne has long championed multiculturalism, in the form of World Music. Taking a look at a New York rabbi who objected to bike lanes in the neighbourhood, Byrne looks at how, in the modern world or cosmopolitan city, different cultures live side by side and asks that basic but still problematic question, why can't we just get along? Click here Yemen - The Return Of Old Ghosts Deja vu... that's what Yemenis old enough to remember will realise. Forty years ago in Yemen, Britain and the United States helped to crush an insurgency and back a despostic regime. Now, the "Free World" is preparing to send arms and "intelligence advisers" to help prop up yet anothercorrupt regime in Yemen. Documentary filmmaker Adam Curtis explains. Click here Click here for more articles

MUSIC REVIEWS VARIOUS Top Of The Pops 1975/1976 [no label 1DVD] By late 1974, the mad rush of glorious new talent (or even non-talent) that had hallmarked the last couple of years of British popdom had finally run out of steam, and the first Top Of The Pops of the new year had no intention of making you think otherwise. By Dave Thompson Click here VARIOUS Top Of The Pops - September and November 1973 [no label 1DVD] It’s number one, it’s Top Of The Pops. By 27 September 1973, the venerable institution was approaching both its tenth birthday and it’s 500th showing; indeed, the first show on this disc is the 499th episode and, with the chart dominated by the Simon Park Orchestra’s instrumental rendering of TV’s Van Der Walk theme music, we’re guaranteed as mixed a bag as the show ever served up. By Dave Thompson Click here Click here for archival music reviews

MOVIE REVIEWS SHERLOCK HOLMES Dir: Guy Ritchie In the latest incarnation of the super sleuth, Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes is a frequent runner, a habitual boxer, an occasional nudist (albeit involuntary), a boor and a slob and an irresistible attractor of inordinately large explosions. If previous Holmes are a reflection of the movie director, what does this Holmes say of his filmmaker? Critic After Dark Noel Vera wonders. Click here FANTASTIC MR FOX Dir: Wes Anderson A taste for the grotesque, a feeling of the fantastique and with just a tinge of melancholy, Wes Anderson's Fantastic Mr Fox is an inward beauty that turns less on survival of the fittest and more on action and consequences, as Critic After Dark Noel Vera points out. Click here Click here for more movie reviews