Memories of My Father review - the richness of childhood, the cruelty of history

★★★★ MEMORIES OF MY FATHER Resonant adaptation of Colombian family memoir

A moving father-son bond resonates in adaptation of Colombian family memoir

Spanish director Fernando Trueba’s Memories of My Father adapts the Colombian writer Héctor Abad Faciolince’s 2006 family memoir, which was published in English as Oblivion: the Spanish-language title of both book and film, El Olvido Que Seremos (“Forgotten We’ll Be”), more liter

Reissue CDs Weekly: Linda Smith - Till Another Time 1988-1996

LINDA SMITH - TILL ANOTHER TIME 1988-1996 A singular American sonic auteur

Essential compilation celebrating the singular American sonic auteur

“I See Your Face” opens with a short burst of Phil Spector-ish tambourine rattling. The sort of thing also employed by the early Jesus & Mary Chain. Then, a cascading folk-rock guitar paves the way for a disembodied voice singing over a spooky one-finger keyboard line and chugging, reverbed guitar. Occasionally, what sounds like a syn drum goes “pff.”

“Gorgeous Weather” is equally remarkable, equally other-worldly. A spiralling, distant-sounding creation, its subterranean feel suggests an oncoming storm rather than what’s usually thought of as gorgeous weather.

Album: LOUISAHHH - The Practice of Freedom (HE.SHE.THEY.)

★★★ LOUISAHHH - THE PRACTICE OF FREEDOM (HE.SHE.THEY.) Industrial dance pounding of various flavours from New Yorker via Paris

Industrial dance pounding of various flavours from New Yorker via Paris

Somewhere in dance culture or other, the Eighties revival has now been going on more than twice as long as the actual Eighties did. Starting around 1998, it reached an initial peak in the early 2000s as the dayglo-fashion led electroclash, but though the eye of the press moved away, it never really died away.

Deutschland 89, Channel 4 review - the Wall comes down, what next?

★★★★ DEUTSCHLAND 89, CHANNEL 4 Final series of the East German spy drama

Compulsive start to final series of the East German spy drama that's much more

Joerg and Anna Winger’s gripping drama of East Germany, a loose portrait set over the final decade of that country’s existence, has reached its culmination, and this first episode of Deutschland 89 landed us right in the unpredictable maelstrom of history.

Reissue CDs Weekly: Disco Zombies - South London Stinks

There’s more to the arty pop-punk outfit than the racket they made

“Witless punk” was the weekly music paper Sounds assessment of Disco Zombies’s first single “Drums Over London”. NME’s Paul Morley was more measured, declaring it “ill-disciplined slackly structured new pop but the chorus alone makes up for it.” That was March 1979. Heard now, “Drums Over London” comes across as energised pop-punk with a sing-along chorus and a wacky bent.

Reissue CDs Weekly: Richard Hell & The Voidoids - Destiny Street Complete

RICHARD HELL & THE VOIDOIDS - DESTINY STREET COMPLETE 1982 album reissued in triplicate

Thought-provoking revisitation of the New York punk pioneer’s second album

"Three plus versions of the same album. It’s ridiculous, but I’m glad.” The first paragraph of Richard Hell’s text in the booklet accompanying Destiny Street Complete lays it out. There are, indeed, three versions of his and his band The Voidoids’s July 1982 album Destiny Street on this double-CD set. It seems excessive.

Filmmaker Frank Marshall: 'People don’t understand what geniuses The Bee Gees were'

Director of the new Bee Gees documentary discusses the brothers' legacy in music

Frank Marshall might not be the biggest household name, but his footprint on Hollywood is unrivalled. He has produced hits ranging from Indiana Jones and Back to the Future to Jason Bourne and Jurassic World. He also takes occasional forays into directing, such as the madcap Arachnophobia and cannibalistic rugby tale Alive.

Reissue CDs Weekly: Scars - Author! Author!

SCARS - AUTHOR! AUTHOR! Expanded reissue of sole album from Edinburgh’s exceptional post-punks in Reissue CDs Weekly

Expanded edition of the sole album from Edinburgh’s exceptional post-punks

Scars’s tour de force album Author! Author! has been out of sight for too long. Originally released in 1981, it first reappeared on a swiftly withdrawn CD in 2007. Apparently, there were issues about where the rights for its reissue lay. Now, it has re-emerged.

Small Axe: Red, White and Blue, BBC One review - sobering real-life story of police officer Leroy Logan

★★★★ SMALL AXE: RED, WHITE AND BLUE, BBC ONE Sobering real-life story of police officer Leroy Logan is third film in Steve McQueen's quintet

One man's bid to change the Metropolitan Police from the inside

The third film in Steve McQueen’s Small Axe quintet (BBC One) took for its subject the real-life story of Leroy Logan, the Islington-born son of Jamaican parents who joined the Metropolitan Police in the early Eighties.

Album: Miley Cyrus - Plastic Hearts

★★★ MILEY CYRUS - PLASTIC HEARTS Miley's ever-shifting sound alights on a Big Eighties aesthetic

Miley's ever-shifting sound alights on a Big Eighties aesthetic

Miley Cyrus has always been, broadly, A Good Thing. A Top Pop Star. A sassy, funny, puritan-scaring, omnisexual chaos monkey at the heart of pop culture, doing pretty much whatever she fancies when she fancies. Not that this has always meant she’s made good music, mind you.