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Flower Power

Twelve-year chronicle of demos and live cuts from '90s keepers of pop flame

Various Artists – Great Day Coming

Wide-ranging anthology of classic gospel tracks

Strange Daze

Quirky, trippy rom-com from Magnolia/Boogie Nights director

Easy Does It

All 10 hours of US television's WWII epic in a box set

Kes

Ken Loach's 1969 masterpiece (based on Barry Hines' novel and produced/co-written by Tony Garnett, later behind This Life and The Cops) remains the template for grim oop north dramas. Its honesty, spontaneity and spiky humour shame more recent dilutions such as the appalling, infuriatingly overrated Billy Elliot. When a young Yorkshire lad, ignored by his loutish mom and brother and beaten down by grumpy, bullying teachers, finds a baby kestrel on the moors, he discovers a purpose in life, vowing to train it to fly. Only one teacher (Colin Welland) is sympathetic.

The Temp

Joyously kitsch or shamefully ham-fisted, Tom Holland's Disclosure esque erotic office thriller sees the surprisingly blank Timothy Hutton as a cookie company kingpin with a suspiciously enthusiastic secretary, Lara Flynn Boyle, who has her own secret and ultimately homicidal plans to take over the entire cookie-making empire. Enjoyably silly until it completely reneges on narrative logic or plot cohesion.

Electric Music AKA – The Slapback Sound

Second album from Scottish, London-based duo

Quite Sane – The Child Of Troubled Times: Short Stories

British-born producer of the Roots returns to jazz roots with a hip hop twist

Darkness Falls

Bleak second outing for Mercury/Brit-nominated songsmith

Dinky – Black Cabaret

New York DJ takes a turn on the other side of the tables
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