We spend most of our time wired to our laptops, so when Tesco – the UK’s largest supermarket chain sent us an email enquiring if we would be interested in promoting their Summer Sale, we replied with a warm, grateful and slightly grovelling yes. You might be wondering why one Continue Reading
CineVue was lucky enough to be in attendance at this weekend’s Zombie All-Nighter (presented by Filmbar70) at the Roxy Bar & Screen, London, courtesy of the Scala Forever cult film season. Featuring five of the greatest flesh-eating flicks of all time including Luci Fulci’s Zombie Flesh Eaters (1979), George A. Continue Reading
★★★★☆ With Alec Guinness duo The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) and The Ladykillers (1955) fronting Ealing Studio’s DVD rerelease list its easy to forget Whisky Galore!, Alexander Mackendrick’s first film and the one that helped put the company on the map back in 1949.Based on the true story of a Continue Reading
★★★☆☆ Director Chris Marker has been working in documentary film for the best part of 60 years, but his best-known film remains the 27-minute sci-fi short La Jetée (1962), rereleased on DVD on 22 August alongside Sans Soleil (1983).Constructed almost entirely from still photos and cheaply-recorded sound effects, La Jetée Continue Reading
Dutch lager giants Heineken has just released the second viral film in their ‘Legends’ online marketing campaign, and is the follow up to the brand’s hugely popular Entrance video series. More and more big names are realising the potential of viral videos, and with their latest effort – The Date – Continue Reading
★★★☆☆ Helmed by Iron Man 1 & 2 director Jon Favreau and starring Hollywood heavyweights Harrison Ford and 007 Daniel Craig alongside TRON: Legacy’s (2010) Olivia Wilde, Cowboys & Aliens (2011) comes to show us what could have happened if a bunch of belligerent extraterrestrials landed in the middle of Continue Reading
★★★★★ Perhaps the finest of all the Ealing comedies, Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) arrives dusted off and given the polish it rightfully deserves; a 62-year-old film rereleased as a timely reminder of how, given the correct ingredients, black comedies needn’t be bogged down with lewd material to be fun, Continue Reading
★★★★★ Sang-il Lee’s Villain (Akunin, 2010) is one of those rare and touching masterpieces of cinema. From beginning to end, this film radiates incredible sadness, creates a whole new world of inexplicable sympathy and compassion, while the villain the title suggests, shifts from one character to the other, continually challenging Continue Reading
★★★★☆ The Guard (2011), directed by John Michael McDonagh (brother of In Bruges [2008] director Martin McDonagh), is an outrageously hilarious and inappropriate comedy that allows the ever under-rated Brendan Gleeson to shine opposite a wonderfully deadpan Don Cheadle, with a supporting cast of other talent including Mark Strong and Continue Reading
I love the Discovery Channel. Give me a pot of tea, a wedge of cake and a day on the sofa and I’d be as happy as Archimedes after a warm inspiring bath. I would dearly love to claim that my thirst for random knowledge could be traced back to Continue Reading
★★★☆☆ Camp Victory, Afghanistan (2010) focuses on one training camp in Afghanistan, the titular base where recruits of the Afghan National Army are being trained by members of the US National Guard into becoming soldiers. The Americans have an unenviable task on their hands; the men they train are plagued Continue Reading
★★★★☆ Director Duncan Jones (formerly Zowie Bowie) follows up the highly acclaimed Moon (2009) with Source Code (2011), a short but exceedingly sweet slice of good old fashioned sci-fi. Jake Gyllenhaal plays Captain Colter Stevens, a soldier who wakes up to find himself on a speeding Chicago-bound commuter train opposite Continue Reading
This weekend, Empire Magazine presented Big Screen, an opportunity for film buffs to glimpse unseen footage, attend special screenings and gorge themselves on a veritable feast of movie exclusives. Last night was no exception, as the British contingent of swords and sandals film fans descended on the O2 Arena to Continue Reading
★★☆☆☆ The Taqwacores (2010), adapted from the cult novel by Michael Muhammad Knight and directed by Eyad Zahra, is a quirky Indie film about young American Muslims determined to rebel against convention.Set in Buffalo, New York, Yusef (Bobby Naderi), a shy engineering student from Pakistan, moves off campus into a Continue Reading
★★☆☆☆ After toying with the idea for some time, Hollywood has finally taken the plunge, bringing everybody’s childhood favourite cartoon characters the Smurfs to the big screen. Directed by Raja Gosnell and starring Hank Azaria, Sofia Vergara, Neil Patrick Harris, Jayma Mays and Katie Perry (as the voice of Smurfette), Continue Reading
