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DVD Releases: ‘The Twilight Zone’ Season One Blu-ray (1959-1960)
★★★★★ Having been available in the States and Australia for some time now, the Blu-Ray release of the first season of The Twilight Zone finally reaches UK shores. However, this isn’t just for Zone fans; this Blu-ray release also means that there is now an opportunity for people who have never seen The Twilight Zone to…
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DVD Review: ‘I Saw the Devil’
★★★★☆ Like so many films of its ilk, the opening scene in director Kim Jee-Woon’s stylishly brutal I Saw the Devil (2010) sees a vulnerable young woman viciously murdered in her car by a sadistic serial killer whilst awaiting rescue. Starting as he means to go on, Jee-Woon takes the revenge thriller and turns it…
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DVD Releases: ‘Blue Valentine’
★★★★☆ Paying ill-concealed deference to narrative conventions, the unpredictable and often excruciating twists of love and relationships must be codified into the language of cinema, often more for their ostensive value as entertainment than as study or discussion. Derek Cianfrance’s second feature, Blue Valentine (2010), is then the antithetical romantic drama: a reflection of romance…
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DVD Review: ‘The King’s Speech’
★★★★☆ The King’s Speech (2010) delves deep into the relationship between two men – one a common man and the other a royal – by exploring the romance of true friendship and asks us to invest ourselves emotionally in such a relationship. The film traces the turbulent and painful accession to the throne of King George…
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Red Carpet: ‘Attack The Block’ UK Premiere
Last night the best and brightest of British comic talent stepped out to take in the premiere of Joe Cornish’s debut film, Attack The Block (2011). A very contemporary and very British take on the popular alien invasion genre, it’s attracted a wealth of interest from movie goers and critics alike; not to be left…
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DVD Review: ‘Dinoshark’
★☆☆☆☆ From the producers of Sharktopus (2011) comes its long lost cousin, Dinoshark (2011) – a prehistoric beast frozen in ice for around 150 million years. When global warming strikes the polar ice caps, its frozen tomb is shattered, leaving it free to roam the oceans of the 21st century. Roger Corman is back once…
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Cannes Film Festival 2011: Preview
With a week to go until the highly anticipated 2011 edition of the Cannes Film Festival gets underway, CineVue takes a brief look at some of the award front runners and exciting program choices which comprise this year’s lineup.As always, a plethora of distinguished guests and world-cinema stars will grace the red carpet in the…
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DVD Review: ‘Bloodrayne: The Third Reich’
★☆☆☆☆ It probably doesn’t take a genius to figure out that a cinematic combination between Nazis and vampires is, at best, a misguided concept. However, if one were so inclined to pursue such a ridiculous idea, then it should at least be conducted with a sense of humour or a tongue-in-cheek slant.Yet somehow, the atrocity…
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Film Review: ‘Insidious’
★★★☆☆ Having been billed as the new Paranormal Activity (2008), I went to see Inisidious (2011) with perhaps undue expectation. Was I disappointed? In a way, yes: it’s no way near as clever nor innovative, but it certainly delivers the necessary abundance of ‘jumps’ and tension-filled over-the-shoulder tracking shots to be credited as an effective…
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ICA: ‘Sparrow’
A man gets dressed in his bedroom; a bird flies in; he catches it and sets it loose again, only for it to return; the room is silent; the man smiles; a flute flurries over the top. Is Sparrow (2008) really a Johnnie To film? Yes – and the Exiled (2006) director is kicking it…
