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...
★★☆☆☆ “An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying king,” Percy Shelley once wrote in his sonnet England in 1819. He was firing his barbs at King George III but the words could just as well be used for any number of English monarchs including Henry VIII.
★★★★★ Turkish master director Nuri Bilge Ceylan returns to the Cannes Croisette with About Dry Grasses, a wonderful wintry meditation on male fragility and the way we often make our own hells and then deceive ourselves that we’re trapped.
★★★★☆ From sub-Saharan Africa to Afghanistan, Syria to Iraq and Iran, the climate crisis, drought, war, and oppression has created a humanitarian crisis of epic proportions. It is treated as an ethical conundrum, but it isn’t. Either we wish to save those who are in danger of dying, or all our talk of human rights is just so much hot air. This is the core concern of Green Border.
★★★★☆ With Luca Guadagnino’s terrific Challengers, the acclaimed director of Call Me By Your Name brings us the sub-genre we never knew we needed: the erotic tennis thriller.
★★☆☆☆ Directors Bettinelli-Olpin and Gillett’s “Abigail” mashes up crime caper and monster movie, but fails to deliver fear or humor. Spoilery trailers and unoriginal characters overshadow promising elements, resulting in a dull, lifeless experience lacking creativity and wit.
★★☆☆☆ Maïwenn’s French period drama Jeanne du Barry is the perfect opening salvo for the 76th Cannes Film Festival. It is as glitzy and gaudy as the festival itself, with its vacuous politics drowned out by the thunderous sound of it slapping its own back.
★★★★☆ Paying ill-concealed deference to narrative conventions, the unpredictable and often excruciating twists of love and relationships must be codified into the language of...
★★★★☆ The King’s Speech (2010) delves deep into the relationship between two men – one a common man and the other a royal –...
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...
★☆☆☆☆ From the producers of Sharktopus (2011) comes its long lost cousin, Dinoshark (2011) – a prehistoric beast frozen in ice for around 150...
With a week to go until the highly anticipated 2011 edition of the Cannes Film Festival gets underway, CineVue takes a brief look at...
★☆☆☆☆ It probably doesn’t take a genius to figure out that a cinematic combination between Nazis and vampires is, at best, a misguided concept....
★★★☆☆ Having been billed as the new Paranormal Activity (2008), I went to see Inisidious (2011) with perhaps undue expectation. Was I disappointed? In...
A man gets dressed in his bedroom; a bird flies in; he catches it and sets it loose again, only for it to return;...