Reviews

Joan Osborne – How Sweet It Is

Covers album finds "One Of Us"hit-maker moving into Bonnie Raitt territory

Various Artists – Beginner’s Guide To World Music

Moderately entertaining introductory selection

Jane Birkin – Arabesque

Gainsbourg's grand amour offers Oriental stylings

Dandies Of The Underground

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

Various Artists – The Wire 20 1982-2002

Triple box set celebrating independent alternative experimental music

The Private Life Of Sherlock Holmes

Underrated Billy Wilder movie revived at the NFT

Minority Report

In 2054 murder is obsolete thanks to Precrime, whose precognitive psychics enable police to arrest killers before they can kill. Then Precrime detective John Anderton (Tom Cruise) is himself accused of planning a murder, and only the psychic Agatha (Samantha Morton) can clear him. Spielberg's masterful sci-fi suspense turns Philip K Dick's short story into something Hitchcockian and technologically dazzling.

Blade Runner Special Edition Deluxe Box Set

Whoo hoo! Ridley Scott's timeless sci-fi noir classic gets handsomely packaged in an impressive box set along with lobby cards, original 35mm frame, script book and poster Definitely Harrison Ford's finest hour, tracking Rutger Hauer and his band of existential Replicants through a neon-and-rain-soaked future LA. Peerless.

This Unhappy Brood

Brilliant comic pastiche which has been crowned Uncut's film of 2002

Various Artists – Elec-Trax

Sixteen shiny "synthpop classics"
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