Reviews

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.

Intense take on lan McEwan's psych chiller

Evergreen hipster's tasteful remixes compiled

Shelved second album from recently rediscovered singer-songwriter

Mad Gregorian astral-rock from 1971

Awkward genre-bending from Glaswegian grunge trio

Sophomore offering by Portland pop-folkies is a concept album of sorts

Welsh punk tykes enjoy a nice scream

Hip-hop popster gets rich telling girls to bend over

You'd have to be Scrooge (or rather Mr Potter) not to recognise Capra as a film-maker whose delight in the human spirit produced some of the finest, sharpest comedies of vintage Hollywood. Here's four of'em-Jimmy Stewart in You Can't Take it With You, Mr Smith Goes To Washington and everyone's festive favourite, It's A Wonderful Life, plus 1934's It Happened One Night. Heart-melting brilliance.