Reviews

The Joe Jackson Band – Volume 4

He's The Man again

Miaow – When It All Comes Down

Cath Carroll's complete 'C86' years

Jimmy Scott – Falling In Love Is Wonderful

First proper release in 40 years for landmark in American popular singing

Various Artists – Glass Onion:Songs Of The Beatles

Black artists reinterpret the Fabs

Live Forever

Spurious but amusing documentary about Britpop

Suede—Introducing The Band

A document of their 1994 Dog Man Star tour, this captures Suede just about surviving the notorious crisis of losing that album's principal architect, Bernard Butler. Still, Brett Anderson bumps and minces with considerable verve and new boy Richard Oakes oozes confidence nevertheless. More interesting are the accompanying tour films, dedicated to Derek Jarman and visibly influenced by said director's Smiths promos. DVD EXTRAS: Lyrics menu, rare NFT video footage, teaser for accompanying Lost in TV DVD.

Chance Encounter

Sellers heads for the White House in perhaps his finest screen performance

Boudu Saved From Drowning

Jean Renoir's 1932 blueprint for Paul Mazursky's heavy-handed 1986 remake Down And Out In Beverly Hills stars Michel Simon as a Parisian tramp rescued from suicidal despair by kindly bookseller Charles Granval. Simon's ungrateful Boudu takes over Granval's house, wife and life, exposing his bourgeois complacency. Enduring, Chaplin-esque social satire. DVD EXTRAS: Introduction by Renoir, essay on the film, trailer for the Mazursky remake. Rating Star

Horsepower Productions – In Fine Style

Compilation of 12-inchers by London producers

El Hula – Violent Love

Cultured NZ pop from Boy George's label
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