Film & DVD Reviews

Rolling Thunder

Rolling Thunder

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

Game Of Thrones Series 1

Game Of Thrones Series 1

It may inhabit a fantasy world far away, but HBO’s epic saga stalks familiar territory...

Rampart

Rampart

Gritty police drama from James Ellroy...

Carnage

Carnage

Roman Polanski's latest

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...

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Editor's Letter

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...