CineVue
For the latest reviews of arthouse, documentary and indie film in cinemas and on the festival circuit.
★★★★★ The first three action-packed escapades of everyone’s favourite teacher turned archaeologist are now available as separate entities on Blu-ray (mercifully, the fourth instalment is absent). Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), the first in the series from Hollywood’s own golden idols George Lucas and Steven Spielberg, is still the Continue Reading
★★★★☆ The last of nine home cinema titles released by the BFI as part of their ongoing Gothic: The Dark Heart of Film season, Rupert Julian’s 1925 production of French novelist Gaston Leroux’s The Phantom of the Opera has stood the test of time better than most, thanks in no Continue Reading
★★★★☆ Met with an equal mix of derision and praise upon its cinema release, Only God Forgives (2013) is certainly one of the most divisive films of the year. While it may not have that automatic cult allure and accessibility of Nicolas Winding Refn’s previous feature, Drive (2011), there’s certainly Continue Reading
★★☆☆☆ British director Christopher Payne has spent over a decade honing his filmmaking skills since the release of his feature debut, The Jolly Boys’ Last Stand (2000). He now returns with new offering Love Tomorrow (2012), a low-key relationship drama that centres on two dancers who have a chance meeting Continue Reading
★☆☆☆☆ Kristin Scott Thomas stars alongside Jean-Pierre Bacri in director Pascal Bonitzer’s Looking for Hortense (2012), a diminutive and largely atonal French comedy of manners that sets about weaving issues of immigration and nationality into its story of a beleaguered family, only to find itself entirely wanting in the narrative Continue Reading