Reviews

Haunting, minimalist road movie takes left-field Drugstore Cowboy director back to his roots

Peter Shaffer's play is stripped of its stage trappings by director Sidney Lumet, exposing many of its failings—primarily Shaffer's preposterous, ponderous script. Admittedly, Peter Firth is believable as the disturbed boy with a quasi-religious fetish for horses, but Richard Burton's dreadfully hammy as his psychiatrist. Jenny Agutter supplies the gratuitous nudity.

Ultra-obscure '70s country music doc resurfaces

Depressing study in madness, memory and murder from David Cronenberg, with Ralph Fiennes, recently released from a mental institution, setting up home in a halfway hostel in London's East End close to where he grew up, and the scene of a massive childhood trauma. Despite some typically creepy Cronenberg moments and universally impressive performances, the plot's predictable, and the relentless bleakness wears after a while.

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