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★★★★☆ It’s always a somewhat curative thing to see Tim Burton return to the roots of his filmmaking career. Graduating from CalArts amongst a generation of animators who would push on to spearhead ventures such as Lucasfilm and Pixar, he […]
★★★☆☆ From its initial shot of a train hurtling along a rural track and entering a pitch-black tunnel, Federico Fellini’s City of Women (La città delle donne, 1980) screams sex from the very beginning. This frank, highly personal dissection of […]
★★★★★ Although she consciously rejects the notion of recurring themes and imagery found within the linearity of her career, The Claire Denis Collection – which groups together a handful of the French writer-director’s finest works – highlights and explores how […]
★★★★☆ After the success of their first H. P. Lovecraft adaptation, the team behind 1985 cult classic Re-Animator turned their attention to another of the writer’s terrifying tales. This time, the source was to be a (very) short story about […]
★★★★☆ Don McCullin entered the public consciousness with his memorable photo of a North London gang, standing defiantly amidst a dilapidated building. That was his very first published photograph, displayed by The Observer in 1958, and is where the aptly-titled […]
★★☆☆☆ Following the success of Walter Salles and Jose Rivera’s last collaboration, 2004 Guevara biopic The Motorcycle Diaries, the duo set about tackling Jack Kerouac’s apparently ‘unfilmable’, revered Beat Generation bible On the Road. Starring Sam Riley, Garrett Hedlund and […]
★★★★☆ What’s made Pixar such a successful animation studio over the last 18 years is the level of collaboration which goes into every film. The Toy Story cycle brought digitextual animation to mainstream cinemas as scientists, architects and designers worked […]
★★★☆☆ Don Coscarelli’s 2012 adaptation of David Wong’s cult novel John Dies at the End (the sequel to which, This Book is Full of Spiders: Seriously, Dude, Don’t Touch It, was released last October) appeared at this year’s Glasgow Film […]
After four hours of pomp and prestige, last night’s/this morning’s 85th Academy Awards finally offered up a full roster of Oscar winners. As predicted, Ben Affleck’s Argo walked away with the award for Best Picture, whilst also picking up the […]
Tonight’s the night ladies and gents! Join the CineVue team for our dedicated Oscar live blog from London’s Roxy Bar and Screen. We’ll be tweeting and manically blogging throughout the night into the wee small hours, from the red carpet […]
This Sunday evening (24 February), the 85th Academy Awards ceremony will take place at Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre, with Steven Spielberg’s presidential biopic Lincoln leading the way with an insurmountable 12 nominations, including Best Picture and Best Director for Spielberg himself. Following closely behind […]
At 13:30 GMT today, previously announced host for the evening Seth MacFarlane (of Family Guy fame) and US actress Emma Stone – star of The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) and the recently released Gangster Squad (2013) – announced the eagerly anticipated […]