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This'll be the one Denzel didn't win the Oscar for. His factory-worker Everyman holds up a hospital when the nasty insurance company won't help his dying son. Shades of Dog Day Afternoon, but an astounding cast (Robert Duvall, James Woods, Ray Liotta) can't stop director Nick (son of John) Cassavetes from descending into trite, teary sentimentality.

Influenced by Spinal Tap as much as it is by cannabis, this 1985 mockumentary was the last thing the duo wrote as a team. Supposedly following them as they record their last album, the best parts are the on-the-couch interviews in which Cheech improvises pretentious answers while Chong tries not to laugh. The songs themselves aren't too funny unless you're baked, but then that's the point.

Box set of Pere Ubu frontman's five solo albums, plus bonus live material with Two Pale Boys

Everything worthwhile done in the '70s by the British Todd Rundgren

WAX CO SINGLES VOLUME 2 (1975-8) BOTH EDSEL If you hit puberty back in the '70s, your first vaguely sexual experience was, perhaps, handing over your 50p to purchase the latest must-have T. Rex single, seven inches of raucous beauty bedecked in a blue-and-red paper sleeve. Someone's had the very fine idea of re-fashioning these period gems on individual CDs and collating them into two box sets, 11 on each.

Vinyl-only mini LP of stripped-down delights from Virginian chanteuse

Double CD follow-up to last year's mainstream rap classic proves that bigger is rarely better

Hard-country survivor soldiers on with his 12th studio album

Ultra-hip German label gets birthday cake and bunting treatment

Twenty-two tracks from Dylan's legendary Rolling Thunder tour finally see official release