Our guest reviewers discuss glo-fi and why Pitchfork’s not as good as it used to be. Photograph: Danilo Krstanovic/Reuters The Divine Comedy – I LikeHitchcock taught us well. While our more murderous cousins were trained to flock-attack actors to death, we – the crack music criticism... 

Plastic Betrand as pictured on the original single of ‘Ça plane pour moi’. When he hit European television screens in 1977, pogoing across music stages with a glint in his eye and a flower in his buttonhole, Plastic Bertrand gave no reason for anyone to doubt him when he yelled... 

‘Unforgettable’: Marina Poplavskaya, Plácido Domingo and Joseph Calleja in Simon Boccanegra at the Proms. Photograph: Chris Christodoulou The last note of Simon Boccanegra rang out. Verdi’s tragic Doge lay dead on the floor, inches from the lucky front-row Prommers in a packed Royal... 

Playing doctor … Ben Kingsley, Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Ruffalo in Shutter Island. Photograph: Paramount/Everett / Rex Features Cinema has long been bad news for the mentally ill, typically representing them as the likes of Psycho’s Norman Bates – crazed, dangerous and in need of... 

Reckitt Benckiser is to buy Durex condoms maker SSL International. Photograph: Linda Nylind Reckitt Benckiser, home to Cillit Bang, is set to acquire the firm behind Durex Condoms, SSL International, in a £2.5bn takeover. The Anglo-Dutch household goods firm, which is also behind Finish dishwasher...