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LFF 2012: Picks of the programme
With the 56th BFI London Film Festival just around the corner (beginning on 10 October), the team here at CineVue thought we’d save you the time and effort of trawling through the festival’s eclectic programme to bring you ten of the smaller, most promising titles to feature at this year’s festival. Whilst most have made…
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BFI London Film Festival 2012: Programme announced
The official programme for this year’s 56th BFI London Film Festival was announced to the press today at the Odeon Leicester Square. As previously revealed, Tim Burton’s stop-motion animation Frankenweenie 3D will open the 12-day festival, with Mike Newell’s new adaptation of Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations closing. With only 14 World Premieres across the 225-strong…
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Film Review: ‘Some Guy Who Kills People’
★★☆☆☆ From director Jack Perez (the man behind 2009 creature feature Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus) and executive producer John Landis comes Some Guy Who Kills People (2011), an evocative if slightly misguided attempt to explore mental illness via the medium slasher/comedy generic hybrid. Starring Kevin Corrigan and The Office’s Lucy Davis, Perez’s latest is…
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Film Review: ‘The Knot’
★☆☆☆☆ Hoping to emulate some of the success of surprise 2011 hit Bridesmaids and even Nigel Cole’s The Wedding Video (2012), Jesse Lawrence’s The Knot (2012) creeps into UK cinemas this week with a trail of negative press following in its wake. Unlike the universally-panned Keith Lemon: The Film (2012), the team behind The Knot…
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Film Review: ‘Sinister’
★★★☆☆ Sinister (2012), the latest horror from The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005) director Scott Derrickson – who also co-wrote the film’s screenplay alongside C. Robert Cargill – manages to hold your interest for large stretches, but ultimately fails to sustain its initial promise through to the end. Ellison Oswalt (Ethan Hawke), a true crime…
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Film Review: ‘Everything or Nothing: The Untold Story of 007’
★★★★☆ James Bond is all the rage at the moment; the highly anticipated Skyfall (2012) hits UK cinemas later this month, whilst the Bond 50 Blu-ray collection has just hit the stands. Another must for Bond aficionados comes in the form of Everything or Nothing: The Untold Story of 007 (2012), a Stevan Riley directed…
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Film Review: ‘Liberal Arts’
★★☆☆☆ Riding into UK cinemas this week on a crest of predominantly positive critical sentiment comes Liberal Arts (2012), the sophomore film from American actor, writer and director Josh Radnor (perhaps best known for his role in hit US comedy How I Met Your Mother). Credit is due to Radnor for assembling a strong supporting…
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Film Review: ‘Taken 2’
★★☆☆☆ Pierre Morel’s original ‘old-man-kicking-ass’ flick Taken (2008) heralded the reinvention of Liam Neeson as the man we all wished was our dad. Sadly, its inevitable sequel Taken 2 (2012), sloppily assembled at the hands of the ludicrously-monikered Olivier Megaton, dilutes virtually everything that made the first film work against the odds. Set a year…
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Film Review: ‘The Perks of Being a Wallflower’
★★★☆☆ Stephen Chbosky’s directorial debut sees him adapt his own novel, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, for the big screen. A coming-of-age drama starring Logan Lerman, We Need to Talk about Kevin’s Ezra Miller and Emma Watson in her ongoing endeavour to no longer be associated as simply the blockbusting Harry Potter franchise’s Hermione…
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DVD Review: ‘The Harsh Light of Day’
★★☆☆☆ Setting aside its overall quality (more on that later), emerging filmmaking talent Oliver S. Milburn’s micro-budget supernatural thriller The Harsh Light of Day (2012) deserves substantial praise for its indie production model. Shot for relative peanuts with a cast of unknowns in his home town of Dorset, this week Milburn’s debut capitalises on its…