Reviews

Writer Jean Genet's sole completed film (albeit only 25 minutes long), despite his lifelong fascination with cinema. Once outlawed due to the presence of an erection, this erotic fever-dream of prison-cell sexual tension represents a remarkable distillation of Genet's poetic themes and preoccupations. The transfer of this 1950 classic is pristine.

One of the best swashbucklers ever made. Tyrone Power is Don Diego de Vega—the son of a nobleman out to save the peasants of Olde Californy (and Linda Darnell) from the villainous Basil Rathbone. Fantastic swordfights (Rathbone was an Olympic duellist), and Power shows exactly how derring-do should be done.

Leone's ferocious four-hour gangster epic, first time on DVD

Debut album from Popstars victors described by Julie Burchill as the most important group since The Sex Pistols

Comparisons are unfair. But when eldest son sounds so like father, Ziggy Marley rather invites it. Recorded in Hollywood with various Red Hot Chili Peppers, Dragonfly represents the total Americanisation of reggae. "I Get Out" borrows the riff from "Get Up Stand Up" and sounds like Matchbox Twenty messing around with a reggae rhythm during a soundcheck. "Looking" could be something Eagle-Eye Cherry might have recorded for a Bob Marley tribute. "Lost am I in my memories of my forefathers' legacy," Ziggy sings on "Shalom Salaam". Quite.

Buzzcocks guitarist goes mod

Second LP from NYC anti-folk scenester

Second from Nick Cave drummer's side project

First two albums from late-'60s Frisco proto-grungesters notorious for being "loudest band on the planet"

Patricia Highsmith's villain comes to life again