Film & DVD Reviews

DRIVE

DRIVE

Great gangster pulp from Bronson director...

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

A perfectly chilly Cold War thriller...Directed by Tomas Alfredson
Starring Gary...

TROLL HUNTER

TROLL HUNTER

Trolls run amok in faux doc/horror romp

KILL LIST

KILL LIST

A fresh, weird spin on the hitman genre...

HERE'S A HEALTH TO THE BARLEY MOW

HERE'S A HEALTH TO THE BARLEY MOW

44 films celebrating the folk customs, songs and dances of Great Britain...

THE SKIN I LIVE IN

THE SKIN I LIVE IN

Medical drama meets sexual farce in Spanish maestro’s unnervingly eccentric fable...

SUPER 8

SUPER 8

Spielberg-produced sci-fi spectacular...

THE KINGDOM

THE KINGDOM

Reinventing the hospital drama: Lars von Trier’s extraordinary TV experiment...

BEGINNERS

BEGINNERS

Bittersweet oddity featuring a gay dad and a talking dog...

HOBO WITH A SHOTGUN

HOBO WITH A SHOTGUN

Rutger Hauer IS a hobo with, y’know… a shotgun!

TREE OF LIFE

TREE OF LIFE

A dazzingly ambitious philosophical folly...

ALICE

ALICE

Surrealist, subversive take on Lewis Carroll’s classic...

POTICHE

POTICHE

French comedy concerning class, sexism and snobbery...

KABOOM

KABOOM

Pop-art shaggy dog tale about a confused gay student...

SENNA

SENNA

Brilliant documentary of the life – and death – of the Formula One legend...

RED HILL

RED HILL

Fanciful, modern-day cop thriller set in Australia...

ATTACK THE BLOCK

ATTACK THE BLOCK

British sci-fi action comedy, with aliens versus hoodies on a Brixton estate...

PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN - ON STRANGER TIDES

PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN - ON STRANGER TIDES

Sail on, sailor. Johnny Depp and co hit the waters once again. Now in 3D!

UPSIDE DOWN - THE CREATION RECORDS STORY

UPSIDE DOWN - THE CREATION RECORDS STORY

Believe the hype! The simple tale of a legendary label...

HANNA

HANNA

The teen-terminator! Inventive, sleek spy fantasy...

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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...