The latest Sight & Sound is out, complete with the following pieces by me:

• Ex Drummer (p. 61) – review of Koen Mortier’s would-be transgressive Belgian drama, which tries a little too hard to offend everybody;
• The Extras (p. 62) – review of Michał Kwieciński’s enjoyable if formulaic Polish-Chinese culture-clash romantic comedy;
• ‘Gods and monsters (p. 100) – review of Masters of Cinema’s latest F.W. Murnau DVDs: Nosferatu and Tabu;
• Bamako (p. 101) – review of Artificial Eye’s DVD of Abderrahmane Sissako’s politically adventurous Malian drama;
• The Brides of Dracula (p. 101) – review of Showbox’s DVD of Hammer’s sequel to their groundbreaking Dracula, without Christopher Lee but Peter Cushing’s Van Helsing is ample compensation;
• Gabrielle (p. 102) – review of Artificial Eye’s DVD of Patrice Chéreau’s deliberately stifling adaptation of Joseph Conrad’s The Return;
• Golden Door (p. 102) – review of Optimum’s DVD of Emanuele Crialese’s sumptuously mounted drama about Sicilian immigrants to the New World;
• It’s Winter (p. 102) – review of Artificial Eye’s DVD of Rafi Pitts’ appropriately chilly portrait of an unemployed Iranian man;
• Films by René Laloux (p. 102) – reviews of Masters of Cinema’s separate DVD editions of Les Maîtres du temps and Gandahar, lesser-known sci-fi animated features by the maker of Fantastic Planet;
• Theorem (p. 103) – review of the BFI’s excellent edition of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s perennially perplexing film-puzzle;
• I Even Met Happy Gypsies (p. 105) – review of Delta Video’s DVD of Aleksandar Petrović’s Yugoslav cinema milestone: forgotten in the West but a clear influence on Emir Kusturica and Tony Gatlif’s gypsy films;
• Ten Bad Dates with De Niro – A Book of Alternative Movie Lists (p. 109) – review of Richard Kelly’s entertaining compilation, including such delights as ‘Ten of the Unlikeliest Films Ever Judged the Best of All Time’, ‘Ten Films That Traumatised Me When I Was Younger’ and ‘Manicure Madness’ (‘Ten Shining Examples of Notable Nail Varnish’).