CineVue
For the latest reviews of arthouse, documentary and indie film in cinemas and on the festival circuit.
★★☆☆☆ A nondescript North African mountain village, serves us the setting for French director Radu Mihaileanu’s re-imagining of Aristophanes’ Lysistrata as a comedy drama about a group of Muslim women rebelling against their patriarchal social system in The Source (La source des femmes, 2011). Aristophanes’ comedy saw the women of Continue Reading
★★★☆☆ Star of Sesame Street Elmo, the beloved red fur ball that loves to hug, is known the world over. But who is the man behind the muppet? Constance Marks’ award-winning documentary Being Elmo (2011) asks just that and takes a look at the life of Kevin Clash, the man Continue Reading
★★★☆☆ Icelandic actor-come feature director Baltasar Kormákur explores the cutthroat, dog-eat-dog world of international smuggling with his latest effort Contraband (2012), starring Mark Wahlberg, Kate Beckinsale, Ben Foster and Giovanni Ribisi. Wahlberg plays likeable protagonist Chris Farraday, who abandoned his own life of crime a long time ago in favour Continue Reading
★★★★★ Since its release 12 years ago, British director Christopher Nolan’s Memento (2000) has continued to intrigue and delight viewers. A film which propelled Nolan into the Hollywood limelight and got the masses talking, it’s of no wonder that when taking into account its unique and perplexing narrative, ingenious directorial Continue Reading
★★☆☆☆ With the much-anticipated The Dark Knight Rises (2012) released in UK cinemas this Friday (20 July), the BFI are running a Christopher Nolan season that includes his directorial debut Following (1998). This little-known 16mm first feature tells the story of a nameless young writer (Jeremy Theobald) with an odd Continue Reading