Film & DVD Reviews

The Way Of The Gun

Usual Suspects writer Christopher McQuarrie makes his directorial debut with this hip crime...

Kurt & Courtney

Nick Broomfield's documentaries are as much farcical as investigative, with the director...

Carry On Doctor

Two strands of British comedy collide with utterly predictable results (all together now: "Oooh...

Kissing Jessica Stein

Riding the ever-popular straight-man-gay-world comedy wave (see Happy, Texas, Three To Tango, In...

Lantana

Watching the ripples set in motion through the suburbs of Sidney by the murder of therapist...

News And Abuse

Lumet's underrated media satire now viewed as a visionary work

One Hour Photo

Along with Insomnia and the inexplicably-unreleased Death To Smoochy, this eerie thriller serves...

The Bourne Identity

Indie tyro Doug Liman (Go!) takes a gripping premise (amnesiac superspy is hunted by CIA while...

Road To Perdition

Golden boy Sam Mendes' less-than-feelgood follow-up to American Beauty suffered a critical...

I Am Sam

Sean Penn has done many good things, and none of them can be found in this sentimental guff. As...

The Importance Of Being Earnest

A polite, prissy take on Wilde which seems to think he wrote for children. Rupert Everett and...

Northern Plights

Compelling Alaskan chiller from Memento director deserves reappraisal

Koyaanisqatsi - Powaqqatsi (Box Set)

Koyaanisqatsi is arguably the best stoner movie of all time, although Godfrey Reggio probably...

Crystal Voyager

A cult favourite back when our people were fair and had stars in their hair, this addled 1974...

Gohatto

Set at the death of the samurai age, Japanese master Nagisa Oshima's first feature in 13 years...

The Vikings

Enduringly popular epic, directed with vigorous panache by Richard Fleischer. Kirk Douglas and...

Trees Lounge

Steve Buscemi's 1996 writing/directing debut, by turns subtly hilarious and desperately sad, is...

Rock'n'Roll Suicide

Watch Mr Bowie's greatest creation take his curtain call

Peter Cook—A Post-Humorous Tribute

Screened on TV last Christmas, this celebrity fundraiser for the Peter Cook Foundation features...

The Three Musketeers - The Four Musketeers

Dick Lester's faithful two-part version of Dumas' adventure tale has truly imaginative action...

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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...