‘Behind the Mask’ is a weekly series of introduced screenings from BAFTA and the ICA, wherein creative professionals each choose a film that they believe showcases exceptional skill in their particular craft.One of the most exciting events of this season […]
It is the second day of the 13th Far East Film Festival in Udine, Italy and Spencer Murphy sat down with director Li Weiran to talk about his first film, the action comedy summer blockbuster from China Welcome to Shama […]
A middle-aged architect phones a sex-line and replies to a personal ad by Sarah, an intriguing young woman who shares his affinity for art…a conjurer performs a grotesque magic show with a dead rabbit whilst a dark-haired woman looks on […]
If you’ve never heard of Husqvarna, the chances are you either don’t work in the building trade or, perhaps, you’re not yet a father. Yes, Husqvarna are to ‘big boys toys’ as Fender are to the humble guitar. It is […]
★★★☆☆ Dreamworks Animation has been on somewhat of a roll recently with the success of both Kung Fu Panda (2008) and last year’s How To Train Your Dragon (2010). Whether that roll continues was down to this inevitable sequel but […]
★★★☆☆ Chinese director Li Yu’s Buddha Mountain (2010) revolves around Ding Bo (Cheng Bolin), Nan Feng (Fan Bingbing) and Fatso (Fei Long) – three characthers on the fringe, verging upon social failure, each rebelling against the world that has brought them nothing […]
Films come in all shapes and sizes, big, small, short and long. Film is expansive and exists in many formats and platforms both inside and outside of the cinema. There exists a plethora of films that critics just don’t give […]
★★★★☆ I feel as though I should begin this review by stating a very simple fact: Taxi Driver (1976) is the greatest film in the history of cinema. Never before or since has a film managed to comprise such an […]
I rarely believe that a film deserves five stars, but I would argue that on this particular occasion, Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Biutiful (2010) deserves every one of them. As a director, Iñárritu is known for his deft skills at storytelling, […]
★★★☆☆ Apparently, up to 67% of people suffer from an “irrational” fear of gnomes. Another 30% of people are afraid of gnomes for “rational” reasons, and the other 3% are gnomes that fear gnomes. At first, Gnomeo & Juliet (2011) […]
The BBFC has today announced its decision to reject Tom Six’s The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence) (2011) for UK distribution. The eagerly anticipated follow up to the 2009 shock-fest The Human Centipede, the BBFC ruling means that the film […]
It’s that time of the month again, when Wikio’s finest compile their definitive list of the Top 20 cinema blogs in the UK. CineVue is, once again, delighted to find itself among this Top 20, this time holding its position […]
