Scala Forever Film Season: Zombie All-Nighter @ Roxy Bar & Screen
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...
Directors Bettinelli-Olpin and Gillett’s “Abigail” mashes up crime caper and monster movie, but fails to deliver fear or humor. Spoilery trailers and unoriginal characters overshadow promising elements, resulting in a dull, lifeless experience lacking creativity and wit.
★★★★☆ In Alex Garland’s Civil War, a group of journalists embark on a road trip to interview the US President amidst a second American Civil War, while exploring media’s dehumanizing relationship with violence.
★★★★☆ Having won the Jury Prize in 2013 for Like Father, Like Son and the Palme d’Or in 2018 with Shoplifters, Cannes favourite and Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda returns with Monster, a masterful work of intricate storytelling, complemented by a lovely score by the late Ryuichi Sakamoto.
★★★★★ Theodor Adorno famously wrote that poetry was not possible after Auschwitz, but is cinema? Billy Wilder certainly thought so, getting footage from the camps as evidence as much as anything else. Steven Spielberg, Claude Lanzmann, Alain Resnais and Roberto Benigni have all with differing degrees of success tried their hands.
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...
★★★★☆ With Alec Guinness duo The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) and The Ladykillers (1955) fronting Ealing Studio’s DVD rerelease list its easy to forget...
★★★☆☆ 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...
Dutch lager giants Heineken has just released the second viral film in their ‘Legends’ online marketing campaign, and is the follow up to the...
★★★☆☆ Helmed by Iron Man 1 & 2 director Jon Favreau and starring Hollywood heavyweights Harrison Ford and 007 Daniel Craig alongside TRON: Legacy’s...
★★★★★ Perhaps the finest of all the Ealing comedies, Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) arrives dusted off and given the polish it rightfully deserves;...
★★★★★ 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...
★★★★☆ The Guard (2011), directed by John Michael McDonagh (brother of In Bruges [2008] director Martin McDonagh), is an outrageously hilarious and inappropriate comedy...