Reviews

Travis-lite trad-rockers' debut LP

The Czech Republic's biggest little band return with their first UK release in eight years

Legendary T.S.O.P. strings arranger finally releases debut solo album after 39 years in the business

Superior, previously uncollected singles and B-sides from melancholy ex-Field Mice

BEATIN' THE HEAT

Career round-ups for two of the brightest lights of '80s Britfunk

Casually packaged highlights compilation

Sly, subversive rap romcom

Writer Jean Genet's sole completed film (albeit only 25 minutes long), despite his lifelong fascination with cinema. Once outlawed due to the presence of an erection, this erotic fever-dream of prison-cell sexual tension represents a remarkable distillation of Genet's poetic themes and preoccupations. The transfer of this 1950 classic is pristine.

One of the best swashbucklers ever made. Tyrone Power is Don Diego de Vega—the son of a nobleman out to save the peasants of Olde Californy (and Linda Darnell) from the villainous Basil Rathbone. Fantastic swordfights (Rathbone was an Olympic duellist), and Power shows exactly how derring-do should be done.