Reviews

Zach Braff writes, directs and stars in a romantic comedy about an actor who returns home to New Jersey.

Lennon laid bare: seven unreleased tracks on this curate’s egg compilation.

Seventh live album from Mick, Keef and the boys.

The legendary promoter Bill Graham stares straight into the camera and declares, "Forty thousand Americans cannot be wrong!" Ah, those were the days!

10 movies which have assessed the impact of key facets of American Culture.

Guy Pearce stars as Leonard Shelby as a man with a rare form of short-term memory loss.

Bob Geldof plays "Pink" in the re-release of Alan Parker's 1982 Movie.

The Modfather returns with a collection of covers.

SPIDER-MAN 2 IS THE best movie adaptation of a superhero comic since Superman 2—one each to Marvel and DC, then. Like that 1980 Christopher Reeve (R.I.P.) super-vehicle, here the eponymous character, played by Tobey Maguire with muscular sensitivity, is torn between saving the world and giving it all up for The Girl (Kirsten Dunst as Mary Jane). This sets things up quite nicely for Peter Parker's biblical abdication of responsibility when the prospect of losing MJ becomes too great and inevitable return when he realises his true calling.

Abel Ferrara's slick 1993 adaptation of Jack Finney's páranoid sci-fi novel about human beings being replaced in their sleep by alien duplicates is the third screen version, and surprisingly good considering the director was compromised by the studio's desperation for a hit. Ferrara relocates the action to a military base, and Gabrielle Anwar and Meg Tilly are among those being menaced. The SFX are gross but impressive.