8 MM, a relentlessly murky odyssey into the world of porn and snuff films, emerges as a secondhand Seven Andrew Kevin Walker wrote both scripts. Nicolas Cage plays Tom Welles, a surveillance expert who is hired to trace the origins of an 8 mm film in which a young girl appears to be murdered on camera; Joaquin Phoenix plays his guide into hell. Director Joel Schumacher aims for a psychological depth that the script can't sustain.

“Is It True”

As the British Invasion reached its peak in 1964, Brenda Lee went from Nashville to London to record one of her hardest-rocking hits, her perky vocal backed by a stuttering, squalling guitar. That guitar was played by session musician Jimmy Page, yet to skyrocket to fame with first the Yardbirds and then Led Zeppelin. "She said to me, 'I've come here to make a record with the British sound,'" remembered producer Mickie Most. "She felt she wouldn't get the same sound in Nashville because they're only just catching up on the British beat group sound of about six months ago."