Special Feature: RAFA win for CineVue
The 2012 Richard Attenborough Film Awards ceremony took place earlier today before a select audience of industry professionals and talent in Central London. As...
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.
The 2012 Richard Attenborough Film Awards ceremony took place earlier today before a select audience of industry professionals and talent in Central London. As...
Earlier this week the programme was announced for this year’s 62nd Berlin Film Festival, revealing a strong lineup of features and shorts from established...
★★★★☆ Scooping the award for Best International Documentary at last year’s Tribeca Film Festival, Bombay Beach (2011) is the kind of refreshing, palate-cleansing experience...
★★★☆☆ Filmed with 20 cameras at a headline show at Japan’s wildly popular Fujirock Festival, long-term visuals collaborator and director Adam Smith’s Don’t Think...
★★☆☆☆ Directed by Brad Peyton and starring Dwayne Johnson (AKA The Rock), Vanessa Hudgens and Michael Caine, Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (2012) is...