CineVue
For the latest reviews of arthouse, documentary and indie film in cinemas and on the festival circuit.
★★☆☆☆ Fans of absurdist Geordie comic Ross Noble will likely have been salivating at the prospect of low-budget Irish horror-comedy, Stitches (2012). Bringing his surreal brand of humour in tow, he stars at the eponymous character in Conor McMahon’s gleefully gory film. One to avoid for coulrophobes, it sees Noble’s Continue Reading
★★★★☆ Writer and director David Koepp has had a track record of minor hits and misses over the years, including Stir of Echoes (1999), Secret Window (2004) and Ricky Gervais vehicle Ghost Town (2008). His latest movie, Premium Rush (2012), is an action movie starring guy du jour Joseph Gordon-Levitt Continue Reading
★★★☆☆ Inspired by writer Tony Briggs’ mother and her days touring in a girl group, Wayne Blair’s The Sapphires (2012) begins in rural Australia, 1968. A deeply ingrained racism is made apparent when two members of Aboriginal girl group, The Cummeraganja Songbirds, can’t hail a taxi to a talent contest, before Continue Reading
★★★★★ Few TV shows achieve classic status during their first season, but Game of Thrones was already being compared to HBO greats like Deadwood, The Sopranos and The Wire even before Ned Stark lost his head. The climax to Season One was genuinely gripping television, and it’s that one shocking Continue Reading