Film & DVD Reviews

Child's Play

Truffaut's genre-defining masterpiece of childhood alienation

Urban Cowboy

John Travolta begins his '80s career slide as Bud Davis, a hick who migrates to Houston, falls...

Kissing Jessica Stein

Unconventional, witty rom-com chooses its inspirations carefully in Woody Allen and Seinfeld....

Trading Places

Much-imitated life-swapping comedy from '83, back when John Landis was a hot name. Street...

Summer With Monika

Early Ingmar Bergman investigation of the problems of young love in which a romantic summer...

Resident Evil

After a biological warfare research lab goes tits up when a virus gets loose, plucky security...

Singin' In The Rain—Special Edition

If not, as it's perennially voted, one of the 10 greatest films ever made, 1952's Singin' In The...

Dogtown And Z-Boys

Fascinating, propulsive, inside-out account of southern Santa Monica's badboy "Dogtown"...

Rollerball

Die Hard director John McTiernan remakes the '70s extreme-sports classic with a sledgehammer...

Austin Powers In Goldmember

Third time around for Mike Myers' sweaty secret agent send-up, and the scattergun approach means...

Army Of Darkness

The 'medieval dead' conclusion to Sam Raimi's legendary trilogy is more action/comedy than...

Hollywood Ending

Movie industry satire based on Tolstoy's The Death Of Ivan Ilyich

Minority Report

In 2054 murder is obsolete thanks to Precrime, whose precognitive psychics enable police to...

Ordinary People

Multiple Oscar-winner (beating out Scorsese's Raging Bull) from 1980, directed calmly (and, for...

Time Out

Highly absorbing film about respectable family man Vincent (Aurelien Recoing) who, after losing...

A Taste Of Honey

Tony Richardson's 1961 take on Shelagh Delaney's kitchen-sink drama of schoolgirl pregnancy is a...

40 Days & 40 Nights

Josh Hartnett again displays his unerring knack for atrocious career choices in this low-brow,...

Desperado

Part of Columbia's new and improved Superbit series, this immaculate version of Robert Rodriguez...

Ed Wood

Tim Burton's splendid tribute to hapless director Wood, whose incompetence has become part of...

Back To The Future Trilogy Box Set

Time-travellers Michael J Fox and Christopher Lloyd shunt between the 1950s, the future and the...

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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...