Features
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Oscars 2012: Main Oscar predictions
The 84th Academy Awards ceremony takes place this Sunday evening (26 February) at Hollywoods’s Kodak Theatre, with Martin Scorsese’s Hugo leading the way with 11 nominations, including Best Picture and Best Director. Despite its nomination hall, the hot favourites for this year’s main awards include Michel Hazanavicius’ The Artist, Brad Pitt’s baseball drama Moneyball and Steven Spielberg’s weepy War Horse. In the…
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Spirit Awards 2012: Award predictions
You’d be forgiven for not having noticed the buzz emanating across the Atlantic for the 28th annual Film Independent Spirit Awards which commence tonight (10pm ET/PT) thanks to this Sunday’s more recognizable and prestigious Academy Awards. The Spirit Awards, created in 1984 and previously known as the FINDIEs (Friends of Independents) have become famous for…
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Oscars 2012: 84th Academy Awards nominations
At 13:30 GMT today, US actress Jennifer Lawrence – star of Winter’s Bone (2010) and the upcoming The Hunger Games (2012) adaptation – announced the Oscar nominations for this year’s 84th Academy Awards ceremony, to be held on 26 February. Martin Scorsese’s Hugo lead the way with 11 nominations including Best Picture and Best Director, with Michel Hazanavicius’ The Artist, Brad Pitt’s Moneyball and Steven…
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Baftas 2012: ‘The Artist’ silent but deadly with seven
Earlier this evening, host for the night Stephen Fry announced the award winners of this year’s 2012 Baftas during a star-studded ceremony at the Royal Albert Hall. French filmmaker Michel Hazanavicius’ silent cinema Oscar-hopeful The Artist was the runaway winner with seven awards, including Best Film, Best Director and Best Actor for Jean Dujardin. In…
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Rich Mix London: Bollywood Bitesized
As snow fell over London’s East End on Saturday night, CineVue were invited to beat away the winter blues by sampling a little spicy chatpati, a lychee martini or two and some vintage Indian cinema at Rich Mix’s Bollywood Bitesized, a sell-out event aimed at bringing the glamour and full-on kitsch of classic Indian movies…
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Special Feature: BFI release 2011 UK box office report
The BFI’s annual box office report, released at the end of last month, indicates a steady growth in admissions and points to the strong performance of British-made films in 2011. The review also details a dramatic wane in the popularity of 3D films over the last twelve months – despite an increase in their production…
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Special Feature: RAFA win for CineVue
The 2012 Richard Attenborough Film Awards ceremony took place earlier today before a select audience of industry professionals and talent in Central London. As an outlet for regional critics across the UK, the RAFAs are now viewed as one of the more influential awards events to take place before the prestigious BAFTA ceremony in February,…
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Roxy Bar & Screen: ‘Kill List’ & ‘Down Terrace’ double-bill
Hidden away in an unassuming corner of Bermondsey, Roxy Bar & Screen is one of London’s best-kept cinema secrets. It’s an intimate screen which seats cinemagoers in a lounge bar setting, blurring the lines between pub and screen with an easy effortlessness. And it’s a trove for film geeks, programming a stonking selection of double-bills…
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Special Feature: Jonah Hill stars in ‘The Sitter’
Recently nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Golden Globe for his role as sports analyst Peter Brand in the baseball drama Moneyball (2011), Jonah Hill is back in comedy territory taking the lead role in The Sitter (2011) directed by Pineapple Express (2008) helmsman David Gordon Green.Hill stars as Noah, a recently suspended college student…
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Special Feature: Hammer classics coming to Blu-ray
It would appear the recent rejuvenation of British studio Hammer is on a roll. Ahead of next month’s highly anticipated cinema release of their interpretation of author Susan Hill’s ghostly classic The Woman in Black (2012), the studio announced yesterday that they are to rerelease some of their most iconic films in HD Blu-ray, unleashing Christopher Lee’s…