Cars

Ice-cold thriller with a downhome feel from the Coen brothers

Former Lone Justice leader turned solo artist returns with her first studio album in seven years

Upbeat debut from Chicago-based four-piece

"Hooligan house" is an inadequate term to describe the scope of this remarkable album from Tom Dinsdale and Simon Franks.

Everybody's kung fu fighting

Double album of new songs plus remixes of old stuff from Sugababes' sugar daddy

Lumet's underrated media satire now viewed as a visionary work

Delbert Mann's earnest 1955 slice-of-life drama about an ordinary Bronx butcher (Ernest Borgnine) mustering the courage to find a girlfriend earned four Oscars—Best Picture plus one each for Borgnine, Mann and screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky, who later penned the far superior Network. It's decently acted and well-meaning but very slight, dated and a little condescending.

Atmospheric 1967 Norman Jewison thriller, and its weaker 1970 sequel from Gordon Douglas. The first, which won Oscars for Best Picture and Rod Steiger, is dryly observed, with Steiger's bigoted Southern sheriff warming to Sidney Poitier's detective as they solve a murder—a big anti-racism statement in its time. The second takes Poitier's Tibbs character to San Francisco, for no pressing reason.

Comprehensive collection of Philly pop-soul boys, fronted by Todd Rundgren, who looked to Swinging London for inspiration and then blew up