Film & DVD Reviews

Detachment

Detachment

We don't need no education...

The Hunter

The Hunter

Willem Dafoe burns brightly in pursuit of rare tiger...

Dark Horse

Dark Horse

Car crashes, comas, hepatatis and death. It's the return of Todd Solondz, of course!

The Bridge

The Bridge

The latest Scandi-TV import proves the Nordic crime wave hasn’t peaked just yet...

Woody Allen - A Documentary

Woody Allen - A Documentary

Documentary on the legendary, bespectacled filmmaker...

The Beatles - Yellow Submarine

The Beatles - Yellow Submarine

Anybody familiar with the short Beatles cartoons produced for US TV (in which George...

Ill Manors

Ill Manors

Sweary "hip hop musical" from Plan B's Ben Drew...

Moonrise Kingdom

Moonrise Kingdom

More left-field genius from Wes Anderson: now with added Bruce Willis...

The Raid

The Raid

Relentless! High end Martial Arts action flick...

Lawrence Of Belgravia

Lawrence Of Belgravia

The world of Lawrence is, by all accounts, a strange one. A singer once told me...

Blackthorn

Blackthorn

Sam Shepard himself takes a rare lead in Blackthorn, which expands on the...

Avengers Assemble

Avengers Assemble

Superior superhero mash up...

Braquo

Braquo

Relentlessly violent French cop thriller...

This Must Be The Place

This Must Be The Place

Paolo Sorrentino’s This Must Be The Place muses on the existence of a fictional...

The Kid With A Bike

The Kid With A Bike

Belgian superstar filmmaker brothers gonna work it out...

Into The Abyss

Into The Abyss

Werner Herzog's chilling Death Row doc...

Wild Bill

Wild Bill

Gritty comedy-drama set in the mean streets of sarf-east London...

The Hunger Games

The Hunger Games

Killing in the name of light entertainment. Hollywood's latest franchise begins...

The Devils

The Devils

Ken Russell's controversial classic, restored to its original glory...

Rolling Thunder

Rolling Thunder

Paul Schrader’s long unavailable ‘70s Viet vet revenge thriller now on DVD...

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Editor's Letter

Nick Cave - The Ultimate Music Guide, on sale this week!


“I think I was reaching quite high from the beginning. I may not have had any right to be, but I was. I was always interested in people that were older than me and I looked up to them – people really from a different era to me: Johnny Cash, John Lee Hooker, even writers like Bob Dylan and...