Features
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Prince Charles Cinema: ‘Killer Klowns From Outer Space’
Killer Klowns From Outer Space (1988) delightfully poor premise follows a U.F.O. resembling a circus tent full of maniacal monster ‘klowns’ armed to the teeth with fairground-based weapons lands on earth with the intent of attacking the residents of a small American town. The film has a fairly spectacular cast of B-movie actors (Grant Commer,…
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Special Feature: Is ‘The Human Centipede 2’ coming to the UK?
Earlier this week the internet erupted in a fit of convulsive irritation at the BBFC’s decision to deny The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence) (2011) a classification. Censorship is always one of those thorny issues that gets people’s knickers in a twist and, as you might well imagine, the words ‘freedom of expression’ have been…
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Media City: The BBC Philharmonic presents ‘Great Film Scores’ Live
This month sees the celebration of a decade of movie musings from Simon Mayo and Mark Kermode on their highly respected yet enduringly accessible film review show. In recognition of their achievement, CineVue were invited along to Auntie Beeb’s new (and very shiny) hub at Media City, Salford, for an afternoon with the BBC Philharmonic…
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ICA: Joanna Hogg ‘Behind the Mask’
‘Behind the Mask’ is a weekly series of introduced screenings from BAFTA and the ICA, wherein creative professionals each choose a film that they believe showcases exceptional skill in their particular craft.One of the most exciting events of this season was a screening of Bob Fosse’s musical All That Jazz (1979), which was presented by…
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Interview: Li Weiran, director of ‘Welcome to Shama Town’
It is the second day of the 13th Far East Film Festival in Udine, Italy and Spencer Murphy sat down with director Li Weiran to talk about his first film, the action comedy summer blockbuster from China Welcome to Shama Town (2010), which opened the festival the previous evening. Spencer Murphy: First of all, thank…
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Special Feature: The films of Theo van Gogh
A middle-aged architect phones a sex-line and replies to a personal ad by Sarah, an intriguing young woman who shares his affinity for art…a conjurer performs a grotesque magic show with a dead rabbit whilst a dark-haired woman looks on almost fondly…a war correspondent laments his bad luck at having to interview a coke-snorting film…
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Special Feature: Husqvarna’s ‘Backyard Games’
If you’ve never heard of Husqvarna, the chances are you either don’t work in the building trade or, perhaps, you’re not yet a father. Yes, Husqvarna are to ‘big boys toys’ as Fender are to the humble guitar. It is with this fine pedigree in all that is over-sized and noisy, they bring us the bizarrely…
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BFI BUG: Moby Special
Films come in all shapes and sizes, big, small, short and long. Film is expansive and exists in many formats and platforms both inside and outside of the cinema. There exists a plethora of films that critics just don’t give any attention to including trailers, adverts, film portraits, and of course, music videos.Last week’s event…
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Special Feature: BBFC bans ‘The Human Centipede 2’
The BBFC has today announced its decision to reject Tom Six’s The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence) (2011) for UK distribution. The eagerly anticipated follow up to the 2009 shock-fest The Human Centipede, the BBFC ruling means that the film cannot legally be supplied anywhere in the UK. Described by the BBFC as a ”…
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Special Feature: Wikio Top 20 UK cinema blogs – June 2011
It’s that time of the month again, when Wikio’s finest compile their definitive list of the Top 20 cinema blogs in the UK. CineVue is, once again, delighted to find itself among this Top 20, this time holding its position at number 17. Over the next month we will be doing our absolute best to…