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One Take Only

Directed by Oxide Pang, this was re-edited after his success with The Eye—Pang presumably feeling he could now take more stylistic liberties. The movie concerns a drug dealer who courts disaster by upping the ante to keep his girlfriend from prostitution, and sees Pang grandly messing with timelines, colour and reality. An enjoyable dip in the seedy Bangkok underground.

In This World

Michael Winterbottom veers as far away as imaginable from 24 Hour Party People, proving yet again that he's bizarrely versatile, in this "fictionalised documentary" about two Afghan refugees who flee across Pakistan, Iran and Turkey in an attempt to reach the relative safety of Kilburn High Road. Not an easy watch, it won multiple awards for its grainy worthiness.

Narc

Following a frenetic opening, Joe Carnahan's Detroit cop movie settles into an edgy two-hander as Jason Patric's alienated undercover man returns to the streets to investigate a cop killing with the dead officer's explosive partner, Ray Liotta. It skirts cliché, but it's powered by a redemptive, almost overwhelmingly emotional current; and it's a joy finally to see Liotta in a role worthy of his talents.

Graham Nash – Songs For Survivors

Solo LP from CSNY's Englishman

Rapid Response

Jason Pierce and co blast back with album recorded in three weeks

Peaches – Fatherfucker

Storming sex-obsessed electro-garage

Hank Wangford & The Lost Cowboys – Best Foot Forward

Latest from celebrated sex doctor, TV presenter and current president of the Nude Mountaineering Society

Lisa Maffia – First Lady

Debut from So Solid Queen

Third Rail – ID Music

Long-lost slice of Pepsodent-bright West Coast bubblegum from '67

UB40 – The Platinum Collection

Triple set comprising all the Birmingham reggae aficionados'Labour Of Love LPs
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