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The Clearing

All-star cast fails to save plodding kidnap 'drama'

Arizona Dream

Director Emir Kusturica assembled Johnny Depp, Jerry Lewis, Faye Dunaway, Lili Taylor and Vincent Gallo in the desert and waited for inspiration. Quite what he was on can only be imagined. The movie has its ups and downs, but does boast two prime pieces of Gallo-ana: a reenactment of Cary Grant's escape from a cropduster, and a classic set-to between De Niro and Pesci with Vinnie playing both parts. Mad.

The Big Bounce

Elmore Leonard's first modern fiction novel was originally filmed in 1969 with Ryan O'Neal in the starring role. It flopped. This remake (directed by Miami Blues' George Armitage) fares no better; it drifts aimlessly, while Owen Wilson's small-time crook, drawn into a relationship with the thrill-seeking girl of a local property developer, never engages your feelings. Morgan Freeman, Charlie Sheen and Vinnie Jones co-star.

Forty Guns

Sam Fuller once claimed that the point of any opening sequence was to give the viewer an erection. Here we have Barbara Stanwyck in black, on a white stallion at the head of her 40 hired men. As lawman Barry Sullivan exclaims succinctly: "Whoa!" Shot in 11 days, in Cinemascope, this is Fuller firing on all cylinders, taking the '50s pulp western and squeezing more juice out of it than any of his contemporaries.

Righteous Brother

Mid-price reissues from one of the progenitors of intelligent rap

Various Artists – Disco Undead

Cult horror movie-inspired synth-pop

Lou Rawls – I Can’t Make It Alone; The David Axelrod Years

Near-fatal 1958 car crash fails to prevent career resurrection

The Faint – Wet From Birth

Nebraskan new wavers make a canny swerve for fourth LP

Comets On Fire – Blue Cathedral

Saucer-eyed Santa Cruz psych-noise

The Prodigy – Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned

Nineties electro-punk megastars return
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