Film & DVD Reviews

Novocaine

Steve Martin is dentist Robert Sangster trapped in a too safe relationship with his hygienist (...

A Time For Drunken Horses

Bahman Ghobadi's gruelling account of Kurdish hardships on the Iran/Iraq border has none of the...

Europa Europa

When, in '91, this wasn't nominated for a best foreign film Oscar, nearly every living German...

Festen

Thomas Vinterberg christened the Dogme genre with immense style in this 1998 Danish classic with...

God Save Our Mad Parade

The sex pistols have become as much of a great British institution as the ones they so...

We Are Skint

Thought deceased, big beat is in fact set to be the new ska—resurrected every few years...

The Studio One Story

The history of Clement "Coxsone" Dodd's legendary Jamaican studio is told through interviews,...

John Lennon And The Plastic Ono Band-Sweet Toronto

Another dusting-off for the Plastic Ono Band, playing for peace and headlining over Bo Diddley,...

Beastie Boys

The rap trio who defined cool in the '90s for want-not-to-be-middle-class white boys have...

In an ideal world, Blondie would have existed only on video. The golden Deborah, adored by the...

Marion And Geoff Series One

Tight script and fantastic acting from Rob Brydon, but what is the actual point of this much...

Paul Weller—Two Classic Performances

Comprising this summer's Hyde Park concert (a rocking preview of the Illumination album that...

I'm Alan Partridge

More personal than Knowing Me, Knowing You and sharper than the series just broadcast, this...

The Sacrifice

Retired actor Alexander (Erland Josephson) is celebrating his birthday with friends and family...

It's A Wonderful Life—Collector's Edition

Frank Capra's festive classic is one of those rare standards which not only lives up to its rep...

The Tuxedo

Jackie Chan does James Bond

Ghost Ship

Hackneyed, supernatural horror yarn

Perfume De Violetas

Tragic true story of two Mexican teens

Barbershop

Inner-city ensemble comedy

Marshall Arts

LA Confidential director brings the best out of rap king

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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...