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“People think of animation only doing things where people are dancing around and doing a lot of histrionics,” Pixar director Brad Bird once said, “but animation is not a genre. A Western is a genre! Animation is an art form, […]
★★★★☆ That willy-nilly, silly old bear Winnie the Pooh (2011) is back in a brand new animated adventure from Disney, this time boasting a great voice cast including Jim Cummings (voicing both Pooh and Tigger), John Cleese and a rather […]
CineVue were honoured to be invited as guests of American Express to the very first Symphony at the Park event this Sunday at London’s Chiswick House and Gardens, celebrating 80 years of Abbey Road Studios. Whilst the Saturday drew an […]
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 […]
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 […]
★★★★☆ 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 […]
★★★☆☆ 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 […]
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 […]
★★★☆☆ 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 […]
★★★★★ 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 […]
★★★★★ 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 […]
★★★★☆ 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 […]