CineVue
For the latest reviews of arthouse, documentary and indie film in cinemas and on the festival circuit.
★★☆☆☆ If one genre above all others is suffering from over saturation it is the horror genre. You can barely go a couple of weeks nowadays without seeing posters going for the latest offering shimmying its way down the genre conveyor belt claiming to be the “scariest film of the Continue Reading
★★★★★ The penultimate picture in his Comédies et proverbes series, Eric Rohmer’s The Green Ray (1986) is his best work and arguably one of the greatest films ever made. It’s a film of unwavering humanity – unflinching in the face of prickly, tangled emotions – and yet it is defined Continue Reading
★★★☆☆ Adapted from Nobel Prize-winning novelist José Saramago’s The Double, Denis Villeneuve’s Enemy (2013) employs the familiar narrative device of the doppelgänger to explore the duality of human nature. From Richard Ayodade’s recent Dostoevsky adaptation The Double (2013), to Cronenberg’s menacing tale of identical twin plastic surgeons Dead Ringers (1988), Continue Reading