Reviews

Red House Painters mainman returns, a little better adjusted

Classy follow-up to multi-platinum Come Away With Me from new Bonnie Raitt

Hugely promising new find

Peter Buck-approved East Coast Paisley Underground curio

You ain't heard nothing 'til you check out crazy Canuck Randy Bachman

Overlooked cuts from pop-country gal with the "itty-bitty voice"

Harrowing death drama from Intimacy director

Derek Jarman's 1979 version of Shakespeare's final play is suitably 'camp' and 'punk', starring Toyah Willcox and Heathcote Williams, and culminating in Elisabeth Welch singing "Stormy Weather" to a bunch of jolly sailors. It's visually flamboyant and wants badly to be sexy, but it's aged dreadfully, and its shock tactics seem a bit silly now.

Michael Winner's 1972 Cold War thriller manages to be built entirely from clichés, yet is almost completely incomprehensible. Burt Lancaster is the seen-it-all CIA man on the run through Europe from superiors who want him dead, pursued by his protégé, cat-loving contract killer Alain Delon. Muddy, but the stars tough it out, and if you've ever wanted to see Lancaster in blackface, dressed as a priest, this is your film.

Zappa's late-'70s antics and muso wanking redeemed only by sexy claymation