Film & DVD Reviews

Heartlands

Gentle, quirky follow-up to East Is East

The Last Great Wilderness

Meaty debut from Tartan Tarantino

Balzac And The Little Chinese Seamstress

Touching memoir of Chinese Cultural Revolution

Stone Cold Soder

Mind-bending art movie from that most schizo of directors

Dolls

Bizarre and beautiful trio of tragic love stories from Hana-Bi director

Mostly Martha

Gastronomical German chick flick

Antwone Fisher

Oscar-friendly actor's emotive directorial debut

Dreamcatcher

Faithful adaptation of Stephen King's alien epic

Orifice Politics

Subversive Sundance prize-winner probes the darker nooks and crannies of the human condition

Alligator - Alligator II

John Sayles scripted this Jaws-onland rip-off, with Robert Forster as the cop chasing a giant...

Nostalgia

Oblique, arcane and infuriatingly sluggish, even by Tarkovsky's standards (makes Andrei Rublyov...

Shakti—The Power

Run-of-the-mill contemporary Bollywood fare—a riot of colour, violence, heavy-duty...

X-Men 1.5

Bryan Singer's faithful take on Marvel's merry mutants is probably the best superhero movie to...

Strange Journey

Jarmusch, Buscemi and Strummer veer off the beaten tracks with Elvis

Will Penny

Magisterial, tough-hearted 1967 western from writer/director Tom Gries. Charlton Heston is a...

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Special Edition

If Easy Rider spelled the end of the hippie dream, then Chainsaw provided the full-blown...

He Loves Me, He Loves He Not

Audrey Tautou's wide-eyed, innocent expressions are subverted cleverly in this Gallic romance-...

Insomnia

Stylish Norwegian thriller, remade last year by Christopher Nolan, whose version is almost...

Trouble In The Heartland

Legendary director's bleak early classic continues to gain respect

Roundup

There are no headless bats in Black Sabbath—Never Say Die SANCTUARY and Ozzy doesn't...

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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...