Reviews

Peter Shaffer's play is stripped of its stage trappings by director Sidney Lumet, exposing many of its failings—primarily Shaffer's preposterous, ponderous script. Admittedly, Peter Firth is believable as the disturbed boy with a quasi-religious fetish for horses, but Richard Burton's dreadfully hammy as his psychiatrist. Jenny Agutter supplies the gratuitous nudity.

Ultra-obscure '70s country music doc resurfaces

Inexplicably coolly reviewed, this Michael Caton-Jones thriller boasts Robert De Niro's best performance in years. As a New York detective estranged from his son, he's distraught when his boy (James Franco) is prime suspect in a case he's breaking. Frances McDormand's excellent as Bob's girlfriend; Long island is a lost Atlantis. A fine film. DVD EXTRAS: Commentaries by writer and producer, Caton-Jones short Mark Of A Murderer.

Enigmatic electro-pop

The Godfather's 2002 US release with three remixed "bonus" cuts

Bit's

The pioneer of bootleg mixes unleashes his first "official" album

First full-lengther from genre-hopping Cambridge quartet

Two punk outfits of varying quality anthologised

The Modfather's version of Pin-Ups and Anthology over three CDs