Colourful spoof of everything Doris Day fought for

When '80s Northern boys hooked up with a pair of disco and hip hop gods

DIRECTED BY Eli Roth STARRING Jordan Ladd, Rider Strong, James DeBello, Cerina Vincent Opens October 10, Cert 15, 90 mins David Lynch protégé Eli Roth has been planning this, his gore-soaked debut, for 10 years. It's some labour of love.

Amiable shoot-the-shit comedy from hangdog actor/producer Ice Cube, Barbershop reveals a hint of drama (sinister gangster Keith David has designs on the shop), but is really a sitcommy chatabout between neighbourhood eccentrics. Topics range from slavery reparations to "the difference between a woman with a big ass and a big-assed woman!"

Ambitious British-Asian musical

Insane collision of thriller and farce, with a kidnapping plot played at volume 11 and cast by a person on amyl. Kevin Bacon and Courtney Love are the bad couple, Charlize Theron and Stuart Townsend the goodies. Charlize attacks Kev with a scalpel hidden down her knickers, but is still less raving bonkers than Courtney. Gloriously dreadful.

Smart, educational survey of two decades of alt.country

Stone's intimate document of Castro as man rather than monster

Five-CD set featuring four-and-a-half hours of new music recorded in 1970

Five CDs,little remorse,strictly for the committed