Reviews

Muddled, witless look at the notorious 1981 murders on LA's Wonderland Avenue, with an unconvincing Val Kilmer as faded porn star John Holmes, in over his coke-addled head in drug scams and violence. A pale cousin of Boogie Nights, its attempted narrative/ editing tricks flop badly. Kate Bosworth and Lisa Kudrow weep, and there's a scorching soundtrack (lggy, Patti, T.Rex). But kindness to the living exacerbates the mess.

Originally seen as a disappointing follow-up to the all-conquering Halloween, John Carpenter's The Fog (1980) is now more widely regarded as a classic supernatural thriller, inspired by Poe and HP Lovecraft, in which the isolated Californian community of Antonio Bay is menaced by the ghosts of a pirate horde. Masterful.

Mancunians' lost acid house tapes resurface

First ever release on CD for future 10cc member's 1968 solo album

Thirty-six-track best-of for bouffant boys

Clumsily named San Franciscans' beautifully arranged second album

Slick two-album set from R&B royalty

US travelling folkie's second album and inaugural UK release

New studio album and greatest hits package from "The Way It Is" man

Generation-bridging blues-gospel collaboration