Film & DVD Reviews

Path To War

Made for HBO, John Frankenheimer's final film shows how the US stumbled into the Vietnam war....

High Crimes

Someone seems to have decided that Ashley Judd and Morgan Freeman are a marketable team, and...

No Man's Land

A Bosnian and a Serb share a trench in this Oscar-winning anti-war film which uses farce and...

Dark Side Of The Loons

Glam's loveable Black Country bovver boyz expose the grim realities of the rock'n'roll lifestyle...

Jacob's Ladder

Tim Robbins is Jacob, a Vietnam Vet trying to adjust to civilian life in New York but suffering...

Sci-Fi - Fantasy Roundup

Psychiatric patient Prot (Kevin Spacey) seems remarkably sane, except for his assertion that he'...

Deep Purple—Heavy Metal Pioneers

Heavy metal pioneers certainly, but as this appealing history shows, Deep Purple also had the...

Yes—Yes Years

Yes Years chronicles the band's career from the late '60s through to their '90s reunion via two...

Cream—Strange Brew

This includes much of the surviving live footage of Clapton, Bruce and Baker, including extracts...

Welcome To Tha House—The Doggumentary

An opening tour of the interior of Snoop Doggy Dogg's mink-lined Cadillac gives an indication of...

Gil Scott-Heron—Black Wax

A terrific primer on Scott-Heron's lyrical, funky jazz bluesology, Robert Mugge's semi-concert...

Robin Williams Live On Broadway

The culmination of a sell-out 2002 tour sees a middle-aged Williams return to his maniacal roots...

The Yardbirds

You might think there's not enough surviving live footage of The Yardbirds to fill a full-length...

Dinner Rush

Danny Aiello dominates this ensemble drama as the weary owner of an Italian restaurant in New...

Q&A

Made in 1990 but in a Serpico-style '70s tradition, Sidney Lumet's Q&A pits Nick Nolte's...

Knockaround Guys

Producer Lawrence Bender wears his Tarantino badge with pride. Which is fine when producing QT...

A Fish Called Wanda—Special Edition

Fifteen years on, the only thing that's dated about John Cleese's romantic-comedy-cum-caper-...

Frailty

An assured if unspectacular directorial debut from Bill Paxton, Frailty turns Se7en on its head...

True Romance—Director's Cut

The clinically style-obsessed Tony Scott might not have been everybody's choice to helm a...

Spy Kids 2—The Island Of Lost Dreams

The sequel to Robert Rodriguez's maniacally good Spy Kids, with budding-Bonds Alexa Vega and...

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Nick Cave - The Ultimate Music Guide, on sale this week!


“I think I was reaching quite high from the beginning. I may not have had any right to be, but I was. I was always interested in people that were older than me and I looked up to them – people really from a different era to me: Johnny Cash, John Lee Hooker, even writers like Bob Dylan and...