Reviews

Snoop Dogg – Paid Da Cost To Be Da Boss

Original gangsta reforms

Die Another Day

James Bond returns in an unconvincing digital makeover

Ed Wood

Tim Burton's splendid tribute to hapless director Wood, whose incompetence has become part of movie legend. Johnny Depp as Wood looks entirely fetching in a variety of angora sweaters, and there's terrific support from Martin Landau as Bela Lugosi, Bill Murray and Sarah Jessica Parker.

Kissing Jessica Stein

Unconventional, witty rom-com chooses its inspirations carefully in Woody Allen and Seinfeld. Jessica's a New York singleton who can't find Mr Right, and so decides to give Ms Right a fling. But she doesn't quite know how to go about this trendy Sapphic stuff, and whenever the film veers on cheese it snaps back sharply. Surprisingly wry.

U2—The Best Of 1990-2000

Playing while standing on a runway with planes roaring overhead in "Beautiful Day", introducing the Flys V Lemons Championships in "Stuck In A Moment...", and playing with cartoons and Batman footage in "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me", U2 are as entertaining as they are enormous and serious. More intriguing, though, are the visits paid behind the scenes as U2 play Sarajevo, bribe Larry with a mermaid and film three videos for "One".

Fleetwood Mac – The Very Best Of…

Odd hits affair which hardly acknowledges Peter Green

Lee Hazlewood – These Boots Were Made For Walkin’—The Complete MGM Recordings

Two-CD garnering of US maverick producer/songwriter's golden years. Includes rare and unreleased gems

Herbie Hancock – The Herbie Hancock Box

Music of unfeasibly large variety of style

Branford Marsalis Quartet – Footsteps Of Our Fathers

Serious overview of black music

Ben Vaughn – Glasgow Time

US TV soundtracker (3rd Rock From The Sun), producer (Ween) and Alex Chilton collaborator makes sunny Scotpop with Norman Blake and co
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