Film & DVD Reviews

LET ME IN

LET ME IN

Red-blooded remake of superior Swedish vampire drama...

CARLOS

CARLOS

The infamous terrorist, captured brilliantly for French TV...

THE ARBOR

THE ARBOR

Portrait of tragic British playwright Andrea Dunbar...

WHERE'S THE MONEY, RONNIE? / SMALL TIME

WHERE'S THE MONEY, RONNIE? / SMALL TIME

From the mean streets of Nottingham, two formative Shane Meadows shorts from ’95 and ’96...

WALL STREET - MONEY NEVER SLEEPS

WALL STREET - MONEY NEVER SLEEPS

Gordon Gekko’s back: but not with a bang...

BURIED

BURIED

Tense one-man thriller. Set in a coffin in Iraq...

THE TOWN

THE TOWN

Ben Affleck directs and stars in Boston crime caper...

I'M STILL HERE

I'M STILL HERE

Alleged documentary about the decline of Joaquin Phoenix. Bad rapping follows...

WINTER'S BONE

WINTER'S BONE

Cold, hard hillbilly thriller, set in Missouri’s unforgiving Ozarks...

CERTIFIED COPY

CERTIFIED COPY

Marital unease elegantly explored in Tuscany...

THE EXPENDABLES

THE EXPENDABLES

Stallone’s all-star action film misses a trick...

THE ILLUSIONIST

THE ILLUSIONIST

Magical, melancholy animation from Belleville Rendezvous director

THE SECRET IN THEIR EYES

THE SECRET IN THEIR EYES

Superior Argentinian police thriller

GAINSBOURG

GAINSBOURG

Biopic of sleazy-listening icon, with added magical realism...

INCEPTION

INCEPTION

Christopher Nolan's excellent, upmarket multiplex thriller

THE EXILES

THE EXILES

For those fascinated by the myths and mysteries of old Los Angeles, this is the city at its...

LEAVING (PARTIR)

LEAVING (PARTIR)

Kristin Scott Thomas on peerless form (again) in French drama...

WHEN YOU'RE STRANGE - A FILM ABOUT THE DOORS

WHEN YOU'RE STRANGE - A FILM ABOUT THE DOORS

When this movie’s over, turn out the lights...

TETRO

TETRO

Coppola’s latest take on family tensions is self-indulgent but beguiling...

WHATEVER WORKS

WHATEVER WORKS

The Woody/Larry coalition: not all it should be, sadly

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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...