DVD Releases: ’44 Inch Chest’
WARNING: Contains spoilers The front cover of the 44 Inch Chest DVD is littered with four star reviews. Unfortunately, not one of them comes from a […]
Film Review: ‘Hot Tub Time Machine’
★★★☆☆ With such a ridiculous title, it would be unwise to go into Hot Tub Time Machine (2010) with the preconception that what you are […]
Cannes Film Festival 2010: Palme d’Or win for Weerasethakul’s ‘Uncle Boonmee’
The 63rd Cannes Film Festival drew to a close with a genuine surprise as Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul walked away with the coveted Palme d’Or prize […]
Blu-ray Releases: ‘Road to Perdition’
★★★★★ Sam Mendes’ Road to Perdition (2002) is shot by the undoubted master of cinematography – Conrad Hall: the man who lit every rose in […]
DVD Review: ‘Precious’
★★★☆☆ “Not since The Birth of a Nation has a mainstream movie demeaned the idea of black American life as much as Precious.” This was the view […]
Film Review: ‘Robin Hood’
★★☆☆☆ Has there been a better time in recent memory to return to the age-old English legend of a poor man willing to stand up […]
Interview: Teddy Chan, ‘Bodyguards and Assassins’
CUEAFS founder Spencer Murphy met with legendary Hong Kong action director Teddy Chan at this year’s Terracotta Film Festival to talk about the state of Hong […]
Special Feature: Australian cinema – a broken industry?
Australia always seems to be in some kind of crisis. If the country isn’t stressing over its cultural identity, its busy ripping into its own […]
DVD Releases: ‘No Country for Old Men’
After more than twenty years of producing highly intelligent, absurd, dark and hilarious independent movies, Joel and Ethan Coen finally struck Academy gold with their […]
DVD Releases: ‘The Road’
The struggle of any cinematic literary adaptation is the very transition from one medium to another. Novels are by their very nature prosaic, episodic and often rely heavily […]
Interview: Joey Leung, Terracotta Film Festival
Terracotta Film Festival organiser and owner of UK specialist label Terracotta Distribution Joey Leung kindly agreed to an interview with the founder of CUEAFS Spencer […]
Film Review: ‘Dogtooth’
★★★★☆ Yorgos Lanthimos’ Dogtooth (2009) is an unsettling examination of how easily the desire to control others can lead to tyranny. The film follows three teenagers confined […]
Film Review: ‘Four Lions’
★★★★★ It was almost inevitable that the cinematic debut from actor, writer and director Chris Morris would attract an inordinate amount of controversy and media […]
Special Feature: How ‘lo’ can you go?
Is it possible to hypothesise that the introduction 3D film providing a new lease of life for the ‘dying’ industry of cinema? In some respects […]
DVD Review: ‘Three Monkeys’
★★★★★ Nuri Bilge Ceylan has established himself as one of the most innovative directors working in film today, with the Turkish director – initially a […]
DVD Releases: ‘Where the Wild Things Are’
Director Spike Jonze’s long awaited adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s much-loved children’s book Where the Wild Things Are (2009) is arguably not a film for children, […]
Theatrical Releases: ‘Iron Man 2’
US multi-billionaire Tony Stark’s (Robert Downey Jr.) superhero ‘alter ego’ was revealed to the world at the end of Iron Man (2008), and John Favreau’s follow up […]
Film Review: ‘Centurion’
★★★☆☆ Starring Michael Fassbender and Olga Kurylenko follows a band of grizzled, war-weary Roman soldiers stationed in Britain during the year 117 AD. After an ill-fated […]