Film & DVD Reviews

The Orphanage

The Orphanage

Masterful Spanish horr movie in the vein of The Others and Devils Backbone

The Wire - Season Four

The Wire - Season Four

Complete fourth series of the best cop drama on TV. Warning: contains spoilers!

Lars And The Real Girl

Lars And The Real Girl

Ryan Gosling shines, but this slight US indie mines familiar themes

Redacted

Redacted

Brian De Palma powers out semi-documentary-style "fiction based on truth"

Diary Of The Dead

Diary Of The Dead

George A Romero's neat reboot of his Zombie franchise

Fade To Black

Fade To Black

Film-lore fantasy gives legend a murder to solve

Stanley Kubrick: Warner Home Video Directors Series

Stanley Kubrick: Warner Home Video Directors Series

The paranoid fantasies of late-period Kubrick collected

Rambo

Rambo

Stallone revisits his 80s high body count past once again

Be Kind Rewind

Be Kind Rewind

Michael Gondry's latest lacks his trademark surrealist spark

My Blueberry Nights

My Blueberry Nights

By filming in English, Won Kar-Wei forfeits his crown - stars Norah Jones, Jude Law

Cruising

Cruising

Pacino and Friedkin’s infamous journey into New York’s gay leather underground

The Diving Bell And The Butterfly

The Diving Bell And The Butterfly

Intensely beautiful interpretation of acclaimed book

Things We Lost In The Fire

Things We Lost In The Fire

Intimate drama of shattered widow and junkie burns brightly, starring Benicio Del Torro and...

Cloverfield

Cloverfield

Lost creator JJ Abrams' post-9/11 monster movie finally opens in the UK

Juno

Juno

Teen pregnancy proves highly fertile comic source

There Will Be Blood

There Will Be Blood

A monumental work of American gothic about greed, oil and murder, starring Daniel Day-Lewis

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street

Tim Burton unveils another of his ghoulish masterpieces

WALK HARD: THE DEWEY COX STORY

WALK HARD: THE DEWEY COX STORY

Spoof music biopic based (mostly) on the life of Johnny Cash

NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN

NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN

Gritty Texan thriller from the inimitable Coen Bros.

Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story

Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story

Intermittently funny but misfiring piss-take of the music biopic by writer of The 40-Year Old...

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Bruce Springsteen, Tame Impala, Rodriguez, George Clinton, John Fogerty, Prince and George Jones in new Uncut


I would have bought the issue of Melody Maker in which I first read about Bruce Springsteen on my way into the art school in Newport, where in March 1973 I was in my last term, only a few months away from moving to London and not long after that fetching up on MM as a junior reporter/feature...