Film & DVD Reviews

Martha Marcy May Marlene

Martha Marcy May Marlene

Psychological, cult-escapee drama...

Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search For A Kool Place

Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search For A Kool Place

The birth of the hippy dream, caught on camera...

Young Adult

Young Adult

Pitch black comedy from the team behind Juno...

Boardwalk Empire

Boardwalk Empire

HBO's handsome, if flawed, Prohibition era crime drama...

The Descendants

The Descendants

Oscar nominated George Clooney leads funny, sophisticated drama...

Coriolanus

Coriolanus

Shakespeare tragedy gets aggressive Balkan makeover...

Shame

Shame

Directed by Steve McQueen
Starring Michael Fassbender, Carey Mulligan

When the...

The Iron Lady

The Iron Lady

Thatcher: The Motion PictureDIRECTED BY Phyllida Lloyd
STARRING Meryl Streep, Jim...

The Artist

The Artist

An unsentimental tribute to the silent era...It is very easy to become consumed by a cosy...

Hammett

Hammett

One (or rather, three) from the heart of Coppola’s American Zoetrope dream...Hammett...

STRAW DOGS

STRAW DOGS

Remake of Peckinpah shocker lacks original’s impact...

CONTAGION

CONTAGION

Medical disaster flick: Soderbergh goes viral...

WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN

WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN

Intense big-screen take on a publishing sensation...

TYRANNOSAUR

TYRANNOSAUR

Paddy Considine’s directorial debut – a strong cast excels in an orgy of suffering...

GEORGE HARRISON - LIVING IN THE MATERIAL WORLD

GEORGE HARRISON - LIVING IN THE MATERIAL WORLD

Within him, without him. Scorsese’s four-hour study reveals the ‘quiet one’ as a seriously...

RED STATE

RED STATE

Strange tale of Christian fundamentalists under siege...

DRIVE

DRIVE

Great gangster pulp from Bronson director...

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

A perfectly chilly Cold War thriller...Directed by Tomas Alfredson
Starring Gary...

TROLL HUNTER

TROLL HUNTER

Trolls run amok in faux doc/horror romp

KILL LIST

KILL LIST

A fresh, weird spin on the hitman genre...

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Editor's Letter

The Ballad Of Kurt Vile And Some More Great New Music


A little over a month into 2012 and great new albums seem to be a-popping up all over the shop, something arriving in the post every day almost that either thrills or beguiles, demanding our attention and more often than not handsomely rewarding it.

Leonard Cohen’s Old Ideas was rightly...