Film reviews and more
With a week to go until the highly anticipated 2011 edition of the Cannes Film Festival gets underway, CineVue takes a brief look at some of the award front runners and exciting program choices which comprise this year’s lineup.As always, […]
★☆☆☆☆ It probably doesn’t take a genius to figure out that a cinematic combination between Nazis and vampires is, at best, a misguided concept. However, if one were so inclined to pursue such a ridiculous idea, then it should at […]
★★★☆☆ Having been billed as the new Paranormal Activity (2008), I went to see Inisidious (2011) with perhaps undue expectation. Was I disappointed? In a way, yes: it’s no way near as clever nor innovative, but it certainly delivers the […]
A man gets dressed in his bedroom; a bird flies in; he catches it and sets it loose again, only for it to return; the room is silent; the man smiles; a flute flurries over the top. Is Sparrow (2008) […]
★★★★☆ The opening night of the 13th Udine Far East Film Festival showcased the latest in a long line of Chinese pseudo-historical blockbusters, the European premiere of Alan Mak and Felix Chong’s The Lost Bladesman (2011), starring Donnie Yen. Beautiful images […]
★★★☆☆ As belated as it is unexpected, considering the loose end-tying finale of the flat third instalment in the franchise, Scream 4 (2011) (or Scre4m in some circles) comes eleven years after the previous and apparently final chapter in the […]
★★★☆☆ After ten minutes of viewing Ink (2009), you may feel the overwhelming compulsion to rip the disc from your DVD player and break it into a hundred shiny pieces. You will have been appalled by the ham acting, disgusted […]