CineVue
For the latest reviews of arthouse, documentary and indie film in cinemas and on the festival circuit.
★★★★☆ The Rocky Horror Picture Show’s reputation certainly precedes it. This October, a new cinematic rerelease of Richard O’Brien’s 1975 cult classic will see throngs of fans fastening their suspender belts and donning shiny, gold speedos as they pay tribute to one of the most iconic musicals of all time. Continue Reading
★★★☆☆ A disturbed and deeply delusional suburban horror, Richard Bates Jr.’s directorial debut Excision (2012) is a fine example of genre filmmaking that’s positively brooding with tongue-in-cheek satire and vulgar, macabre imagery. Pauline (AnnaLynne McCord, in a surprisingly ‘dressed down’ performance) is a troubled young girl with a morbid fascination with Continue Reading
★★★★☆ A heartfelt and profoundly affecting exposé into the daily struggle faced by Uganda’s severely persecuted LGBT community, Katherine Fairfax Wright and Malika Zouhali-Worrall’s Call Me Kuchu (2012) stands head and shoulders above a great deal of this year’s more populist, knowingly ‘cinematic’ documentaries. Preferring to let its thoughtful and Continue Reading
★★☆☆☆ Originally written in the late 1990s, Dennis Gansel’s vampire film We Are the Night (2010) – starring German arthouse star Nina Hoss – spent almost a decade in development hell before the success of the Twilight franchise reopened the doors for it. With bloodsucking very much back in vogue, Continue Reading