★★★★★ Buster Keaton’s silent era masterpiece The General (1926) makes a welcome return to UK screens this week thanks to a new Cohen restoration and an ongoing BFI retrospective. Pin-sharp and as luxuriously entertaining as ever, this timeless tale of […]
★★★★☆ The perspective afforded by Dogwoof’s tenth anniversary rerelease of Marc Singer’s Dark Days (2000) reveals it to be a profound film about both a city and a medium in flux. A portrait of a homeless community living in a […]
The full programme for the tenth edition of the ever expanding Glasgow Film Festival (20 February to 2 March, 2014) was revealed earlier this evening, with the unmistakable Wes Anderson’s latest film, The Grand Budapest Hotel, selected as the Opening […]
★★☆☆☆ In 1812, the British burnt the White House to the ground – the only time since the Revolutionary War that America’s capital has ever been occupied. That is until 2013, when both Antoine Fuqua and Roland Emmerich duked it […]
★★★★☆ Ghana-born director John Akomfrah – the creative mind behind 1987’s Handsworth Songs and, more recently, The Nine Muses – made a triumphant return last year with The Stuart Hall Project (2013), a multi-layered video essay on the fluidity of […]
★★★☆☆ Hercule Poirot has been a mainstay on British television screens over the past quarter of a century thanks to David Suchet’s definitive portrayal of the portly Belgian sleuth. Courtesy of UK distributors StudioCanal, three of the great detective’s most […]
★★☆☆☆ Joining the contemporary collective of female filmmakers laying in the wake of the multi-hyphenate works of Lena Dunham, American actress Lake Bell makes her directorial debut with In a World (2013), a project she also writes and stars in. […]
★★★★☆ An alumni of the mumblecore school for young American filmmakers, Andrew Bujalski is generally regarded as having made the first ‘official’ film of this demonstrably divisive sub-genre with Funny Ha Ha (2002). His fourth feature, Computer Chess (2013), successfully […]
★★☆☆☆ Jeff Renfroe’s The Colony (2013) paints a bleak picture of humanity’s future; a post-apocalyptic world where climate change has left the Earth shrouded in a permanent deluge of ice and snow. Starring Kevin Zegers and nineties action movie luminaries […]
It would perhaps be overstating it to claim that South Korean cinema had been invisible in the West before the second instalment of Park Chan-wook’s vengeance trilogy. Cannes contender Oldboy (2003) was, however, a well-placed hammer blow to the floodgates. […]
Intellect’s Directory of World Cinema series makes a welcome return by delving into the burgeoning and enticing landscape of Brazilian cinema. As well as being one of the world’s fastest growing economies, the film industry in Brazil is also experiencing […]
We’re delighted to announce that one of CineVue’s finest contributors, Patrick Gamble, has been nominated for Blogger of the Year at the 2014 Richard Attenborough Film Awards. The nod came for his sterling review of J.C. Chandor’s sophomore feature All […]
★★★☆☆ David Wnendt’s Wetlands (2013) stars Carla Juri as Helen, an adventurous teen experimenting with sex, drugs and haemorrhoids.The daughter of divorced parents – and with countless issues feeding her angst – Helen spends her days indulging in casual encounters […]
★★★★★ “Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.” This is the cautionary, biblical advise offered up by Lillian Gish’s kindly foster mother at the outset of The Night of the […]
★★★★☆ Opening to a drug-addled Leonardo DiCaprio tossing a dwarf, Martin Scorsese’s raunchy, ribald and gloriously satirical attack on American hedonism, The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), is a feast of such vulgar delights that it would make Bacchus blush. […]
★★★★☆ The crushing social angst found within a generation of despondent, shiftless hipsters has long been a mainstay of micro-budget filmmaking. Whilst Jan Ole Gerster’s German effort Oh Boy! (2012) shares many of these traits, this Berlin-set slacker comedy also boasts […]
★★★★☆ Paul-Julien Robert was born in 1979 into a commune founded by a leading member of the Viennese Actionist Art movement, Otto Mühl. It was a strange environment in which to live one’s formative years and he now seeks to […]
★★★☆☆ Representing something of a triumphant return to feature film roles, Michael Cera stars in Chilean director Sebastián Silva’s Crystal Fairy (2013) – or, to give it its full title, Crystal Fairy & the Magical Cactus and 2012 – a […]
