Still smokin' companion piece to Smoke, with Harvey Keitel back to carry on enjoying one of his best Nineties opportunities as the oddly cheery and worldly-wise Brooklyn tobacconist who must battle his boss to save his old-style store from going on sale. The playful dialogue's obviously improvised, producing the odd hiccup, but on the whole these talented people have the stuff to make it work. Madonna appears briefly and amusingly as a singing telegram girl, Michael J Fox, Roseanne (the artist formerly known as Barr) and Mira Sorvino strike chords among the other luminaries, but they're all upstaged by a hysterically funny cameo from Lou Reed. A happily laid-back, cool movie, made on a shoestring as an afterthought to the original film that the participants enjoyed so much they begged for more. Devised and directed by film-maker Wayne Wang and writer Paul Auster, put this one in your pipe and smoke it!

©ipc tx. Film content from TVTimes