True History of the Kelly Gang (18) | Close-Up Film Review
The film describes itself as being inspired by Peter Carey’s Booker prize winning novel and admits in an opening statement that this is not the true history of the Kelly gang.
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Military Wives (12A) | Close-Up Film Review
Directed by Peter Cattaneo of The Full Monty fame this is very much a feel-good movie. Another of those films based on real events, this time it’s the story of the first ever choir created by military wives.
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The Personal History of David Copperfield (PG) | Close-Up Film Review
The film holds the attention through its sheer pace and theatricality, though it’s a technique that in some ways keeps the audience at a distance.
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Little Joe (12) | Close-Up Film Review
Austrian director Jessica Hausner’s first English language film has a strong cast and an intriguing, genre defying story, which combines science fiction with psychological drama in a most unusual way.
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Radioactive (12A) |Close-Up Film Review
Radioactive is based on a graphic novel, in this case a fictionalized biography of the Nobel Prize winning scientist Marie Curie.
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The Uncertain Kingdom (15) |Close-Up Film Review
This wide ranging and adventurous collection of twenty short films was initially intended as a response to the uncertainty of the post Brexit world.
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1917 (15) | Close-Up Film Review
Lance corporals Blake and Schofield are sent on a vital mission to the front line, where the British troops, believing that the Germans have retreated, are about to embark on a big push.
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Bombshell (15) | Close-Up Film Review
The Fox News channel doesn’t exactly have a reputation for being a reliable and responsible news operation. This film though gives us a different slant on the station, revealing the toxic culture of sexual harassment and discrimination.
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Bend It Like Beckham (12) | Close-Up Film Review
It’s funny, real and intelligent, an East is East about today’s young British Asians and the eternal generation conflict, which will also appeal to non-Asians.
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Astronaut (PG) | Close-Up Film Review
Despite its title this is not a mega-budget space adventure but the more intimate story of an elderly man who has always dreamed of journeying into space – and then, at the age of 75, sees the possibility dangling in front of him.
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