Twin Peaks UK Festival 2011: Weekend review
David Lynch and Mark Frost’s cult masterpiece Twin Peaks – starring Kyle MacLachlan, Sheryl Lee and Ray Wise – was celebrated in decadent flair at […]
Film Review: ‘Moneyball’
★★★☆☆ Baseball has always been a popular subject for Hollywood to tackle and the passion for the US national pastime usually equates to a multitude […]
Special Feature: Martin Scorsese and cast discuss ‘Hugo’
Earlier today at a press conference in Central London, acclaimed director Martin Scorsese discussed his latest feature Hugo (2011), a magical 3D journey about a […]
DVD Review: ‘Sarah’s Key’
★★★★☆ Sarah’s Key (2010), directed by Gilles Paquet Brenner and starring Kristin Scott Thomas (soon to appear in the film adaption of Salmon Fishing in […]
DVD Review: ‘Blood in the Mobile’
★★☆☆☆ Studies attempting to find a link between mobiles and medical traumas are infamously vague and inconclusive, mainly due to the fact that many of […]
DVD Review: ‘Happy People’
★★★★☆ From directors Dmitry Vasyukov and Werner Herzog – and thanks to DVD distribution from Second Sight – comes 2010 feature documentary Happy People: A […]
DVD Review: ‘Mildred Pierce’
★★★★☆ After a string of high quality TV drama successes in the form of The Sopranos, The Wire, Boardwalk Empire and Game of Thrones (DVD/Blu-ray […]
Film Review: ‘Dream House’
★★☆☆☆ Director Jim Sheridan, best known for the Academy Award-winning In the Name of the Father (1993), returns with Dream House (2011), a mystery-thriller starring […]
BFI London Film Festival 2011: ’50/50′
★★☆☆☆ Jonathan Levine’s 50/50 (2011) stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Seth Rogen in a tragic comedy about a young man who discovers he has a rare […]
Interview: Simon Curtis, ‘My Week with Marilyn’
This week, CineVue met up with British director Simon Curtis to talk about his newly released homage to Marilyn Monroe, Laurence Olivier and the amazing […]
Film Review: ‘Parked’
★★☆☆☆ Despite accruing an impressive array of film festival credits, director Darragh Byrne’s feature debut Parked (2010) is unable to compare in ambition or quality […]
Film Review: ‘An African Election’
★★★☆☆ Jarreth Merz’s documentary An African Election (2010) is an eye-opening account of the 2008 democratic election in Ghana between Attila Mills of the National […]
Prince Charles Cinema: ‘The Monster Squad’
Any kid who hung around video shops in the late 1980s will remember the The Monster Squad (1987) with great affection and as the lights […]
Film Review: ‘We Were Here’
★★★★☆ Directors David Weissman and Bill Weber (The Cockettes [2002]) return to screens this week with the powerful and moving AIDS focused documentary We Were […]
Interview: Amit Gupta, director of ‘Resistance’
British director Amit Gupta’s debut feature, the superb Resistance (2011, review here), is released in cinemas nationwide this week, and stars exceptional UK talent in […]
Film Review: ‘Calvet’
★★★★★ Dominic Allan’s Calvet (2011) screened to much critical acclaim at this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival, slowly becoming one of the festival’s surprise hits […]
Film Review: ‘Resistance’
★★★★☆ Adapted from the novel of the same name by Owen Sheers, Resistance (2011) is director Amit Gupta’s first feature length film and stars Andrea […]
Film Review: ‘Take Shelter’
★★★★☆ Due to the drawn-out process of filmmaking, mainstream cinema is often relatively slow to react to significant real world events. It took over ten […]