Reviews

A potentially tasteless cash-in (given that the makers can't even get the date of his death right on the back jacket), surprisingly this turns out to be an immensely watchable documentary detailing Elvis' tragic demise. The usual suspects from the "Memphis Mafia" line up to share tearjerking anecdotes about junk food and drugs ("he jurst ferkin' lurved 'em!"). Morbidly fascinating.

Canadian eclectics find new directions from '80s pop and recent avant-dance

Sounding happier at 60 than many male rockers, she delivers third solo album

Second release from Californian dreamers

Debut album from Jeffrey Lee Pierce's twisted blues-punk quartet remains strikingly relevant

Sadly neglected, once massive, psychedelic soul pioneers

Gripping true-life drama of magazine office politics

Jean-Jacques Beineix's 1981 debut is a romantic thriller about a young opera fan who records a bootleg tape of his favourite opera singer. Since she's always refused to be recorded, the tape becomes almost priceless on the black market, with opera fans and gangsters chasing after it. Very French, very stylish, very '80s.

Arguably the Farrellys' best film, though already ageing badly. A bunch of set-pieces (Ben Stiller's zipper problems Cameron Diaz's innovative hair gel) linked by a ridiculous, overlong plot, it gets its big belly-laugh moments right and you tolerate the padding. Stiller's lack of vanity allows him to carry off sketches others would muff.

Fantastic DVD package compiling the ultimate '70s cop show's first and best season—seasons two onwards added Tom Scott's catchy sax theme but were considerably toned down and increasingly played for laughs. Five discs of '70s cornball TV at its absolute best. Watch out for banned-by-the-BBC episode "The Fix", in which Hutch gets hooked on heroin by a dastardly mob boss.