Reviews

Stars And Stipes

Athenian trio deliver alternative state of the union address on sombre 14th album

Neville Staple – The Rude Boy Returns

Former Special and Fun Boy goes it alone

Green Day – American Idiot

After four years, Cali-punk perennials return with a concept album

Bard Of Paradise

Masterful exposition on spiritual and erotic longing from the divine Len

Ian Broudie – Tales Told

"Three Lions" man's first new material in five years

Crude Awakening

Elvis has flattened the building...

Fried

Mulatto nu-soul from FYC fulcrum

Aliens Vs Predator

Contrived attempt to revive two ailing franchises

Creep

Soulless home-grown horror tries too hard

The Producers: Special Edition

Mel Brooks'gloriously tasteless 1965 comedy, with Zero Mostel's shabby producer and Gene Wilder's timid accountant hatching a plan to make a fortune from a sure-fire Broadway flop, Springtime For Hitler. Brooks' play-within-a-film structure is fiendishly clever, while Kenneth Mars' bug-eyed, paranoid Nazi playwright and Dick Shawn's way-out hippie Hitler steal the show. Superb.
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