Manufacturer: Carlton Visual Entertainment Ltd
Starring: London Philharmonic Orchestra, Leo Goeke, Felicity Lott, Benjamin Luxon

Though Hits out of Hell shares the title of Meat Loaf's 1984 greatest hits album, the tracklisting is not quite the same: curiously, the DVD omits "Dead Ringer for Love", "Midnight at the Lost and Found" and "All Revved Up with No Place to Go", but includes, perhaps by way of compensation, "More Than You Deserve" and "If You Really Want To". Such considerations are, of course, of only ...

Manufacturer: Sony Bmg
Starring: Meat Loaf

Manufacturer: 2 Entertain Video
Starring: Michael Jackson

Manufacturer: Picture Music International
Starring: Poison

While "rock musical" remains a phrase used by sadistic parents to give their offspring nightmares the genre does occasionally throw up the odd gem, Purple Rain being perhaps the shiniest example. Given the theatricality of Prince's stage shows, it was only a matter of time before the diminutive pop potentate found himself a big-screen vehicle but few could have predicted that Purple ...

Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: Prince, Apollonia Kotero, Morris Day, Olga Karlatos, Clarence Williams III
Directed By: Albert Magnoli

Manufacturer: Synergy
Starring: Dolph Lundgren, M. Emmet Walsh, Al White, T.P. McKenna, Carmen Argenziano
Directed By: Joseph Zito

The years have endowed Saturday Night Fever with a powerful, elegiac quality since its explosive release in 1977. It was the must-see movie for a whole generation of adolescents, sparking controversy for rough language and clumsily realistic sex scenes which took teen cinema irrevocably into a new age. And of course, it revived the career of the Bee Gees to stratospheric heights, thanks to ...

Manufacturer: Paramount Home Entertainment
Starring: John Travolta, Karen Lynn Gorney, Barry Miller, Joseph Cali, Paul Pape
Directed By: John Badham

Manufacturer: Paramount Home Entertainment
Starring: Cheech Marin, Tommy Chong, Hans Man in 't Veld, Carol van Herwijnen, Shireen Strooker
Directed By: Tommy Chong

Manufacturer: Castle Home Video
Starring: Ewen Murray

Manufacturer: Universal Pictures UK
Starring: The Who