Features
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Prince Charles Cinema: ’48 Hrs.’ & ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ Double Bill
Visiting the Prince Charles Cinema, just off London’s Leicester Square, is a little like being transported into a cinematic time machine. It’s not a glossy multiplex with a HD digital projector – it’s an old-school dinosaur with a doggedly traditional ethic. I was here to catch a double-bill of what could have been titled ‘Back…
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Symphony at the Park: Classic Abbey Road Film Scores
CineVue were honoured to be invited as guests of American Express to the very first Symphony at the Park event this Sunday at London’s Chiswick House and Gardens, celebrating 80 years of Abbey Road Studios. Whilst the Saturday drew an army of over 1000 music lovers, all eagerly awaiting live renditions of classic tracks recorded…
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Special Feature: Tesco laptop sale
We spend most of our time wired to our laptops, so when Tesco – the UK’s largest supermarket chain sent us an email enquiring if we would be interested in promoting their Summer Sale, we replied with a warm, grateful and slightly grovelling yes. You might be wondering why one of the fastest growing UK…
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Scala Forever Film Season: Zombie All-Nighter @ Roxy Bar & Screen
CineVue was lucky enough to be in attendance at this weekend’s Zombie All-Nighter (presented by Filmbar70) at the Roxy Bar & Screen, London, courtesy of the Scala Forever cult film season. Featuring five of the greatest flesh-eating flicks of all time including Luci Fulci’s Zombie Flesh Eaters (1979), George A. Romero’s original Dawn of the…
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Special Feature: Heineken presents ‘The Date’
Dutch lager giants Heineken has just released the second viral film in their ‘Legends’ online marketing campaign, and is the follow up to the brand’s hugely popular Entrance video series. More and more big names are realising the potential of viral videos, and with their latest effort – The Date – Heineken have chosen to turn…
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Special Feature: The Discovery Channel’s ‘Curiosity’
I love the Discovery Channel. Give me a pot of tea, a wedge of cake and a day on the sofa and I’d be as happy as Archimedes after a warm inspiring bath. I would dearly love to claim that my thirst for random knowledge could be traced back to an exuberant teacher or motivating…
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Red Carpet: ‘Conan the Barbarian’ UK Premiere
This weekend, Empire Magazine presented Big Screen, an opportunity for film buffs to glimpse unseen footage, attend special screenings and gorge themselves on a veritable feast of movie exclusives. Last night was no exception, as the British contingent of swords and sandals film fans descended on the O2 Arena to usher in the arrival of…
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Film4 Summer Screen 2011: ‘Die Hard’ / ‘Attack the Block’ Double Bill
Having already seen both Joe Cornish’s Alien invasion movie Attack the Block (2011) and the original Die Hard (1988) (the latter at unhealthy amount of times), Film4 Summer Screen’s recent double bill at Somerset House was certainly a mouth-watering proposition – and it didn’t disappoint. The night started with a ‘Behind the Screen‘ screentalk from…
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Special Feature: ‘Super 8’ director J.J. Abrams on his film’s influences
With Star Trek (2009) director J.J. Abrams’ nostalgic sci-fi epic Super 8 (2011) released in UK cinemas tomorrow, we give a run-down of the directors major influences from Ridley Scott’s Alien (1979) through to Amy Holden Jones’ 1982 film The Slumber Party Massacre. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) Abrams says: “You think, ‘That’s…
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Film4 Summer Screen 2011: ‘The Apartment’
There are few settings more perfect than Somerset House to watch a film, and as you embrace the joy of sitting in the warm open air of July, laying out on a blanket staring at Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine in the 2008 restored version of Billy Wilder’s 1960 classic The Apartment at Film4 Summer…
