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Toronto Film Festival 2012: New ‘Cloud Atlas’ trailer released ahead of TIFF
Modern life is forever a rush and as such, those of you pressed for time may not have had the chance to sit and enjoy the full five minutes and forty-two seconds of the first extended trailer for Andy Wachowski, Lana Wachowski and Tom Tykwer’s time-trotting literary adaptation, Cloud Atlas (2012). Well fear not, as…
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Film Review: ‘St George’s Day’
★★☆☆☆ Frank Harper is most well known for appearing in Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) and The Football Factory (2004), and it’s to cockney gangsters and football hooligans that he turns in his directorial debut, St George’s Day (2012). The result is a fairly unremarkable crime caper that boasts production value and an…
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Film Review: ‘Tabu’
★★★★☆ Easily one of the strongest films on display at this year’s icy Berlin Film Festival and a firm contender for best feature of 2012 so far, Portuguese director Miguel Gomes (perhaps best-known on these shores for his previous film, 2008’s This Dear Month of August) returns triumphantly with Tabu (2012). A beguiling black and…
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Interview: Miguel Gomes, director of ‘Tabu’
This Friday sees the UK cinema release of Miguel Gomes’ bewitching black and white master-stroke Tabu (2012). We met up with Gomes at the Edinburgh International Film Festival earlier this year to discuss the film and his own nostalgic approach to cinema further. An ex-film critic known for his playful personality, it would be fair…
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Jameson Cult Film Club: Spielberg’s ‘Jaws’ at Greenwich Yacht Club
Yesterday evening, CineVue were kindly invited along to the latest Jameson Cult Film Club event, which presented a very special screening Steven Spielberg’s digitally restored, monster movie classic Jaws (1977). Setting up shop within London’s Greenwich Yacht Club, hundreds of guests congregated around the yard, bar and burger-flogging BBQ to watch on as Spielberg’s abnormally…
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Film Review: ‘A Night in the Woods’
★★☆☆☆ Another month, another faux-found footage yarn that intends to rework genre tropes through a supposedly original take on the ‘lost in the woods’ vein of horror cinema. The plainly titled A Night in the Woods (2011), directed by documentary filmmaker Richard Parry, takes a well-worn gimmick and gives it a decidedly British equivalent, mixing…
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Venice 2012: ‘Disconnect’ review
★★★☆☆ Henry Alex Rubin follows up the Oscar-nominated Murderball (2005) with Disconnect (2012), a multi-strand narrative film dealing with the impact of social media on a diverse cast of interrelated characters. Two high school students fool a lonely classmate into believing that he has a female admirer; a grieving couple, (Alexander Skarsgård and Paula Patton)…
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Venice 2012: ‘Lines of Wellington’ review
★★☆☆☆ In competition for the Golden Lion at the 69th Venice Film Festival, Valeria Sarmiento’s 150 minute-long Portuguese historical drama Lines of Wellington (Linhas de Wellington, 2012) is a large plodding europudding of a movie. The film opens with the battle between the British and Portuguese forces against the French at the battle of Bussaco.…
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Venice 2012: ‘Spring Breakers’ review
★★★☆☆ Harmony Korine’s Spring Breakers (2012) may well be this year’s Venice Film Festival guilty pleasure. It stars two ex-Disney girls, High School Musical’s Vanessa Hudgens and Selena Gomez (of Wizards of Waverly Place fame). Gomez plays the aptly-named Faith, befriended by college bad girls Candy (Hudgens), Brit (Ashley Benson) and Cotty (Rachel Korine). The…
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Film Review: ‘Love’
★★★☆☆ There is always likely to be an air of suspicion permeating a low budget science fiction epic that is produced and scored by an alternative rock band, and released as a tie-in with a double album (calls of “cash-in” are, unfortunately, to be expected). The band in question are Angels and Airwaves, led by…