Film & DVD Reviews

The Guru

Typically inane British comedy which reduces centuries of Asian culture to a Carry On joke. Jimi...

The Driller Killer

Abel Ferrara's 1979 directorial debut achieved notoriety as a video nasty, but those seeking...

The Last Supper

Initially promising black comedy, acidly penned by Dan (Dead Man's Curve) Rosen, which follows a...

Murder By Numbers

Sandra Bullock got little credit for branching out as a gum-chewing, neurotic hardcase in this...

Bugsy Malone

Leaving aside the Paul Williams soundtrack and Jodie Foster's performance (which aren't bad),...

Married To The Mob

Two years before GoodFellas, Jonathan Demme nailed the comical backstage soap opera element of...

O

Despite the presence of the hapless Josh Hartnett, Tim Blake Nelson (him from O Brother, Where...

Windtalkers

Action emperor John Woo raises hell in the Pacific for this noisy WWII epic, which is grounded...

Pollock

Years of Ed Harris' life went into realising this biopic of action painter Jackson Pollock. As...

Horror Roundup

American thriller writer Peter Neal (Tony Franciosa) arrives in Rome to publicise his latest...

Sleeper Hit

It's tempting to see Pedro Almodóvar's career as one steady progression from early...

Waking Life

Richard Linklater takes the po-faced monologues of Slacker up a level with this extraordinary,...

Easy Does It

All 10 hours of US television's WWII epic in a box set

The Prisoner 35th Anniversary Companion

On this "Special Edition" DVD you get a wealth of biographical information and visual material,...

Nico—An Underground Experience - Heroine

By the early-to-mid '80s, Nico was holed up in Manchester on the comeback trail junkie habit in...

Suede—Introducing The Band

A document of their 1994 Dog Man Star tour, this captures Suede just about surviving the...

Big Beach Boutique II

The first gig since Castlemorton to make front-page news, Fatboy Slim's massively over-attended...

Pulp—Hits

Pulp's early-'90s videos for "Babies" and "Lipgloss" perfectly capture that periods new optimism...

My Wrongs #8245-8249 And 117

Comedy terrorist Chris Morris writes and directs this extended riff on what could have been one...

Dog Days

Set in and around a half-built rubble-strewn suburb of nowhere Vienna, pounded by summer...

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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...