Joseph Walsh
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BFI London Film Festival 2011: ‘The Ides of March’
★★★☆☆ One of the big-hitters of the 55th BFI London Film Festival and starring and directed by George Clooney, The Ides of March (2011) is a political drama with actor of the moment Ryan Gosling, Paul Giamatti, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Evan Rachel Wood. Clooney’s latest is adapted from the play Farragut North by Beau…
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DVD Review: ‘This Boy’s Life’
★★★★☆ Starring Robert De Niro and a young Leonardo DiCaprio (in his first leading role), Michael Caton-Jones’ This Boy’s Life (1993) is the emotive tale of the youth of dirty realist author Tobias Wolff. The film is based on the autobiographical book of the same title by Wolff and was superbly adapted for the screen by…
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BFI London Film Festival 2011: ‘Coriolanus’
★★★☆☆ William Shakespeare’s Coriolanus is one of the Great Bard’s most complicated and longest plays, making an adaptation a brave move for the directorial debut of actor Ralph Fiennes. To counter this, Coriolanus (2011) boasts an impressive cast of great acting talent, including Vanessa Redgrave, Gerald Butler, Brian Cox and Jessica Chastain.Fiennes has transported the action…
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DVD Review: ‘The Secret Laughter of Women’
★★☆☆☆ The Secret Laughter of Women (1999) is the first and only film to date from director Peter Schwabach and stars Colin Firth and Nia Long. This light-hearted romantic comedy set amongst a Nigerian community in southern France is a somewhat dull example of its genre offering the viewer very little to enjoy. Nimi (Long)…
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Film Review: ‘Four Days Inside Guantánamo’
★★★★★ Four Days Inside Guantánamo (2010) is a breathtaking documentary from directors Luc Côté and Patricio Henriquez that retells the heart-wrenching story of the injustice suffered by Canadian citizen Omar Khadr, who in 2002 – at the age of 15 – was captured by US forces in Afghanistan and imprisoned in Guantánamo Bay as an…
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Interview: François Ozon, director of ‘Potiche’
Recently, CineVue were fortunate enough to meet up with director François Ozon to discuss his latest film Potiche (2011), a wonderfully vibrant and energetic comedy about trophy wife Suzanne Pujol, played by the lady of French cinema Catherine Deneuve. We met at the Institut Français in Queensbury Place and started with discussing how he adapted…
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Film Review: ‘Red White & Blue’
★★☆☆☆ Starring Noah Taylor (seen earlier this year in Richard Ayoade’s superb debut feature Submarine), Amanda Fuller and Marc Senter, Red White & Blue (2010) is an unconventional revenge-thriller from British director Simon Rumley, who brought us the rather disappointing The Living and the Dead (2006) and Strong Language (2000).Each night, Erica (Fuller) goes out…
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FrightFest 2011: ‘Tucker & Dale vs Evil’ review
★★★★☆ Comedy and Horror work incredibly well together; scary moments can be funny and vice versa. The problem is that there have been a lot of horror comedies over the years, and the question is “what is left that is original and worth making?” However, my fears were abated when I watched Eli Craig’s directorial…
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Interview: Eli Craig on ‘Tucker & Dale vs Evil’
Eli Craig will not be a name familiar to many of you reading this – yet. His first feature, Film4 FrightFest favourite Tucker & Dale vs Evil (2010), stars Tyler Labine and Alan Tudyk in a comical, inverted take on the Hillbilly slasher movie sub-genre. I recently spoke with the director to discuss the project…
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Film Review: ‘The Change-Up’
★☆☆☆☆ The Change-Up (2011) is a buffoonish comedy starring Ryan Reynolds, Jason Bateman and is directed by David Dobkin, the man responsible for bringing us Wedding Crashers (2004) and Shanghai Knights (2003). The film relies on the unoriginal MacGuffin of a ‘body-swap’ between two friends, Mitch (Reynolds) and Dave (Jason Bateman), who over the years…
