Reviews

With grim, grubby retro-future styling, Michael Radford's movie, originally released in the eponymous year, is the best adaptation of George Orwell's feel-bad totalitarian parable. As reluctant rebel Winston Smith, John Hurt is perfect—looks like he's spent his life in misery. The revelation is Richard Burton, weighed down with strange love, melancholy and menace in his final role as O'Brien, the investigator who takes Hurt under his wing to crush him.

Unremarkable dregs from the 1980s metal vaults

Does exactly what it says on the tin

From Yardbirds' fan-club secretary to "the face of '68"...

Quirky duo display backbone on 10th studio album

Dark, ambitious second album from fast-rising Derby producer

Hilarious US left-field comedian

Diverse, patchy covers album from Greg Dulli

Magnificently barmy indie-opera from NY's squabbling Friedbergers

Sophomore effort from Devon's teenage would-be-soul empress