(Rhino, 70 minutes)

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This concert DVD documents last year's five-night stand at London's Brixton Academy celebrating the 30^th anniversary release of the Pistols' Never Mind The Bollocks album. Though the idea of a Sex Pistols reunion seemed strange when the band first reunited in 1996 (when in six months they played to more people than they'd managed during their first period together, 1975 to 1978), they're now a semi-regular rock attraction, brashly dismissing any charges of "selling out" with either wry irony (as in the very title of this release) or a blunt "Fuck off!"

So it goes in this film (directed by longtime Pistols' associate Julien Temple). Though the audience is peppered with folks sporting the kind of Mohawks that made decent British society cringe back in the ‘70s, here they are singing along lustily to "There'll Always Be An England" to the clear approval of Johnny Rotten (wearing a worn PiL shirt), who assures the crowd, "As long as we exist, there fucking well will be!" Similar asides are dropped in between songs, such as "Fucking right, I'm a fat bastard! In the best of British tradition!" No, middle age hasn't slowed down Mr. Rotten; despite being (in his own description) "Fat, fifty, and back!", he still possesses that distinctive voice capable of peeling paint from the walls.

With a frontman like that, there's no need for the other band members to say anything at all (which they don't). They just get down to business, punching out the Bollocks songs with relish as Rotten bounces away in front. There are no surprises, but no affectations either; how can the Pistols have killed rock ‘n' roll when it's clear from their performance they still harbor such love for the beast?

Special features: a fun feature-length "travelogue" that takes you around the Sex Pistols' London, with the boys in the band pointing out the sites; there's great archive footage mixed in too. GILLIAN G. GAAR