Film & DVD Reviews

Betrayed

When Fed Debra Winger goes undercover in the rural Midwest to investigate a bunch of white...

28 Days Later

Though it didn't burn up the box office during its theatrical release, Danny Boyle's jittery...

Dazed And Confused

Richard Linklater's emotionally ambivalent high school homage is a cutting riposte to the rosy...

Monty Python Box Set

Collecting all four Python movies. And Now For Something Completely Different was a 'greatest...

Fellini's Roma

Released in 1972, Federico Fellini's extended love letter to his adopted home city is less of a...

Road Rage

David Lynch's relentless 1990 rush of highway madness remains a precious gem

Novocaine

Steve Martin darkens his usual screwball comic persona for Novocaine, playing a suburban dentist...

Anita And Me

Director Metin Hüseyin's breezy adaptation of Meera Syal's terrific fictionalised memoir...

Romeo Is Bleeding

Gary Oldman, miscast but blowing hard in Peter Medak's 1993 thriller, is a sleazy cop who takes...

To Kill A King

Dubious English Civil War saga

The Actors

Daft knockabout comedy of theatrical rogues

Shiri

South Korean blockbuster that sank Titanic

Old School

Animal House meets Fight Club

Ghosts Of The Abyss

James Cameron's IMAX marvel

Do The Rustle

Nicholson and Brando face off in Arthur Penn's uneven western

Bad Lieutenants

Lifting the lid on LAPD brutality and corruption

The Truth About Charlie

Pointless vanity remake of Charade

Henry—Portrait Of A Serial Killer

Sleazy, nihilistic classic returns uncut

The Leopard (II Gattopardo)

Charting the changes in 19th-century Sicily

Pure

Fierce love and hard drugs in London's East End

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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...