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The Editorial Team
Daniel is a writer and critic currently working within the UK film industry. After working on a number of independent UK docs including Three Miles North of Molkom and Starsuckers, Daniel went on to found CineVue in April 2010. Daniel is also a contributor to Time Out London magazine and sites such as Little White Lies.
Joe Walsh - Deputy Editor (@JosephDAWalsh)
deputyeditor[at]cine-vue.com
Joe is a dedicated cinephile currently working in film marketing for the Barbican Centre. As a child he became obsessed with film when put in front of classics such Bridge Over the River Kwai and Singing in the Rain. His favourite directors are an eclectic mix of Orson Welles, Akira Kurosawa and Michelangelo Antonioni.
Lee Cassanell (@Cassanell)
Lee Cassanell (@Cassanell)
Lee spent an idyllic childhood immersed in such underrated classics as My Demon Lover, Dead Heat, Maniac Cop and James Signorelli's seminal masterpiece Elvira, Mistress of the Dark. Lee gained regional notoriety as chief writer for the arts and culture magazine Tenfoot City and is now a member of the CineVue editorial team.
Patrick Gamble (@NeonKlaws)
patrickgamble[at]cine-vue.com Patrick Gamble (@NeonKlaws)Patrick is a self-confessed Francophile with an unflinching adoration for the works of Demy, Truffaut and Resnais. He currently writes for numerous film blogs including SubtitledOnline and Flickfeast. His favourite movies are Cria Cuervos, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg and Stalker.
Regular Contributors
John Bleasdale (@drjonty)John Bleasdale is a writer living in Italy and working in Venice. His interest in film started with The Cat from Outer Space and almost ended with The Tourist. Despite this hiccup, he has published work on Terrence Malick, as well as popular Hollywood films and independent cinema. His blog, entitled A Success Shaped Hole Called Failure, which can be found here.
Russell Cook (@Rusty1982)
After seeing Easy Rider for
the first time, Russell's interest in film quickly became an obsession:
the combination of its cinematography and soundtrack opened his mind to
the evocative marriage of sound and the moving image. His favourite
films include O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Babel and Goodfellas.
Edward is an enthusiastic, wannabe professional film journo brought up on a pedigree of John Hughes gems and Woody Allen classics. His point of no return was watching Manhattan, and he hasn’t looked back since, honing his passion for all things cinema. When he isn’t contributing to CineVue and studying for his Film Studies degree at Anglia Ruskin University, he writes for his own blog, found here.
Stephen Glass
Stephen is a Film & Television student at Warwick University. He's
currently writing a film-philosophy dissertation on Mad Men and Breaking
Bad, and outside of this his interests include horror and pornography,
his favourite films including Irreversible, The
Fly, and Boogie Nights. His recent short film, S.T.Demented, is
available to view here.
During his studies, Daniel worked as a co-director on a short film titled Echo and specialised in British social realist cinema since the 1950s. His other main interests lie in the work of David Lynch and Martin Scorsese, with Eraserhead and Taxi Driver among his favourite films of all time. Daniel also keeps a personal film and music blog, which can be found here.
Sophie Kingston-Smith
Stephen Leach (@StephenWLeach)After graduating from The University of Warwick with a 2:1 in Film with Television studies, Stephen punched himself in his own idiot face and realised he liked it. When he isn’t writing for CineVue he also contributes to other sites including Little White Lies, The Playground and Rhythm Circus, and currently works for film PR company Organic Marketing.
Cleaver has written for such publications as Film Review and The Sunday Times Magazine on everything from vampires to interiors. However, it is his first love - film - to which he always returns. An aficionado of British horror such as the sublime Theatre of Blood, Cleaver now contributes the 'Fright of Your Life' column to Starburst Magazine online.
Lucy Popescu
Robert Savage (@DirRobSavage)Robert is an award-winning filmmaker, freelance writer and incurable cinephile since being exposed to Katsuhiro Ôtomo’s Akira at the age of just ten. Robert is also co-founder of European production company Idle Films, and has recently written and directed the feature film Strings, for which he is currently in talks regarding theatrical distribution. A promo for the film can be viewed here.
David is a graduate of the University of Warwick. He spends rather too much of his time complaining about the success of Rob Savage, about whom he has very little positive to say. When not watching films, David enjoys writing about films, talking about films, complaining about films and reading books, comics and safety labels on tinned goods.
Oliver SunleyOliver gave his first film review when he was three and fell asleep watching The Nightmare Before Christmas. Seventeen years later, he watched another Tim Burton film in the cinema, Alice in Wonderland, and did the same again. He currently writes and directs short films and has just finished a John Waters-inspired trilogy entitled Gypsies of Sleaze alongside fellow CineVue writer Stephen Glass.
Sonia Zadurian (@SoniaZadurian)Sonia currently works in the film department at the Barbican Centre, but would commit to approximately 3-5 years of tea making just for the chance to work within 10 yards of Pixar Studios and/or Christopher Nolan. Specialising in Cognitive Film Studies, her favourite films include Pan's Labyrinth, The Prestige and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
