Film & DVD Reviews

The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby

The cover story of this month’s Vanity Fair paints a disturbing picture of a...

Beware Of Mr Baker

Beware Of Mr Baker

Entertaining documentary about the notoriously cantankerous drummer...

I'm So Excited!

I'm So Excited!

Pedro Almodovar's latest: high altitude, high camp comedy...

The Look Of Love

The Look Of Love

A collaboration between filmmaker Michael Winterbottom and star Steve Coogan,...

Good Vibrations

Good Vibrations

There already exists a hefty body of work documenting the adventures of record label bosses from...

Reincarnated

Reincarnated

Snoop Dogg goes reggae; gets stoned...

Stoker

Stoker

Hollywood has never quite known what to do with Park Chan-wook. On the face of...

Hitchcock

Hitchcock

Hitchcock arrives, rather inconveniently, two months after the superior BBC/HBO...

Flight

Flight

With Flight, director Robert Zemeckis has made a solid, unshowy character drama...

Lincoln

Lincoln

Lincoln begins with the Battle of Jenkin’s Ferry in Arkansas in April, 1864, at...

Zero Dark Thirty

Zero Dark Thirty

Zero Dark Thirty is a companion piece to The Hurt Locker, the previous film...

Fear And Desire

Fear And Desire

Kubrick's first film - a low budget treatise on war that compliments his later triumphs...

McCullin

McCullin

DIRECTOR Jacqui and David Morris
STARRING Don McCullin

Towards the end of last year...

Amour

Amour

Michael Haneke has often meted out cruel and unusual punishments to his...

The Master

The Master

Paul Thomas Anderson begins and ends The Master with the same image: Freddie...

The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour

The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour

Roll up for the definitive remaster of The Fab Four’s car-crash Christmas television special...

The Queen Of Versailles

The Queen Of Versailles

The Queen Of Versailles introduces us to David and Jackie Siegel, an American...

The Imposter

The Imposter

Real life slice of Texan noir...

Homeland Season One

Homeland Season One

Damian Lewis keeps us guessing in Obama’s favourite post-War On Terror thriller...

Sebastian Bergman

Sebastian Bergman

It's the Swedish Cracker! Sort of...

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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...