Film & DVD Reviews

This Unhappy Brood

Brilliant comic pastiche which has been crowned Uncut's film of 2002

Still Crazy

Nicholson brings havoc to a mental institution back in 1975. Five Oscars follow...

Pavement—Slow Century

The quintessential '90s indie band take a creditable tilt at posterity on this two-disc set....

American Roots Music

Four magnificent hours of documentary narrated by Kris Kristofferson which trace the history of...

Gorillaz Phase One—Celebrity Take Down

Forget CDs, this is how Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett's bloodless multimedia project was always...

Madness—Divine Madness

"Don't watch that—watch THIS!". The Nutty Boys' promos were always integral to their...

U2—The Best Of 1990-2000

Playing while standing on a runway with planes roaring overhead in "Beautiful Day", introducing...

Billy Bragg And Wilco—Man In The Sand

The two albums of Woody Guthrie songs recorded by Billy Bragg and Wilco and released as Mermaid...

Twin Peaks—Season One Box Set

David Lynch's TV series, which first aired in the UK in the early '90s, broke the mould on so...

Hardball

Keanu Reeves stars in this dismally formulaic affair as an inveterate gambler given one last...

The Virgin Spring

More convincingly medieval than his breakthrough film The Seventh Seal, The Virgin Spring is a...

Roberto Succo

French study of a true-life serial killer who habitually robbed, kidnapped and killed in the...

Monster's Ball

Halle Berry's blubbing Oscar win shouldn't obscure the fact that this is a brave, harrowing film...

John Q

This'll be the one Denzel didn't win the Oscar for. His factory-worker Everyman holds up a...

Natural Born Killers: Director's Cut

Oliver Stone in mind-fuck overdrive. Seven years after it provoked the most hysterical reactions...

The Wash

Hip hop's finest double-act, Dr Dre and Snoop Dogg, pay loose, improvisational homage to the...

Blade Runner Special Edition Deluxe Box Set

Whoo hoo! Ridley Scott's timeless sci-fi noir classic gets handsomely packaged in an impressive...

Men In Black

Reissued as part of the Superbit series, Barry Sonnenfeld's witty and energetic spoof fields a...

Serpico

One of the great Sidney Lumet's thoroughly hypnotic New York movies, where you can smell the...

Zulu

Remembered now as Michael Caine's debut, playing a posh officer opposite Stanley Baker, Cy...

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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...