CineVue
For the latest reviews of arthouse, documentary and indie film in cinemas and on the festival circuit.
★★★★☆ Billy Wilder was the rarest of creatures – a mainstream American director openly praised by his European compatriots, gaining auteur status thanks to the support of the Cahiers du Cinema and a number of the French Nouvelle Vague’s most prominent figureheads. Wilder’s universal and timeless appeal is celebrated this Continue Reading
★★★★★ Nearing the surface of most people’s top ten American movie lists would surely come Steven Spielberg’s monster hit Jaws (1975), adapted from the Oxfam-favourite novel by Peter Benchley. This week – following a world premiere at this year’s Cannes Film Festival – the quintessential shark tale returns to cinemas Continue Reading
★☆☆☆☆ Director Jon Sanders’ third feature Late September (2012) is a lumbering, tiresome arthouse experiment that cheaply muses on the relationship of a couple who realise, after forty years, that their marriage is failing. Shot over a 24-hour period, the film follows Ken (Richard Vanstone) and Gillian (Anna Mottram) in Continue Reading
★★☆☆☆ Previously known for some rather mediocre films, director Dana Lustig returns with A Thousand Kisses Deep (2011) – a thought provoking, if somewhat overly ambitious, sci-fi drama starring Jodie Whittaker of Attack The Block fame and Dougray Scott who recently appeared as Arthur Miller in My Week with Marilyn Continue Reading
★★☆☆☆ While she certainly kicked ass as a fearsome femme fatale in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds (2009), French actress Mélanie Laurent has always seemed more comfortable in dramatic fare like The Concert and Beginners, especially when faced with thrillers as cliché-added and generic as Requiem for a Killer (2011). Though Continue Reading
★★★☆☆ Kidulthood (2006) writer Noel Clarke join forces with Lenora Crichlow, Lily James and Bradley James in New Zealand-born director Regan Hall’s Brit-flick Fast Girls (2012). Whilst this isn’t much more than a feel-good sports movie, Hall’s underdog tale provides good entertainment value for those looking ahead to this summer’s Continue Reading