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Author: Carol Allen

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The White Tiger (15) | Close-Up Film Review

January 22, 2021January 22, 2021 Carol Allen Adarsh Gourav, Priyanka Chopra, Rajkummar Rao, The White Tiger

The film is adapted and directed by film-maker Ramin Bahrani from the 2008 Booker prize winning novel by Aravind Adiga. The two are old friends from student days in America and have been talking about making the film ever since Adiga first had the idea for the story.

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Funny Boy (15) | Close-Up Film Review

December 11, 2020December 11, 2020 Carol Allen Agam Darshi, Ali Kazmi, Arush Nand, Brandon Ingram, Funny Boy

As she did in her 1998 film which was set against the bloody conflicts of the 1947 borderlines conflict between India and Pakistan, Canadian/Indian director Deepa Mehta once more looks at personal relationships against the background of civil war.

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Jack and the Beanstalk (U) | Close-Up Film Review

December 5, 2020December 5, 2020 Carol Allen Ian Talbot, Jack and the Beanstalk, Jos Vantyler, Peter Duncan, Sam Ebenezer, Sarah Mossand

While theatres up and down the country have been struggling in the last couple of months to create socially distanced pantos for Christmas, back in lockdown summer actor/director and former Blue Peter action man Peter Duncan was wondering what he could do to save the 2020 panto season.

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Falling (15) | Close-Up Film Review

December 4, 2020December 5, 2020 Carol Allen Falling, Lance Henriksen, Sverrir Gudnason, Viggo Mortensen

Viggo Mortensen, who makes his feature film writing and directing debut here, was inspired to make the film by memories of his relationship with his own late father.

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County Lines (15) | Close-Up Film Review

December 4, 2020December 5, 2020 Carol Allen Ashley Madekwe, Conrad Khan, County Lines, Harris Dickinson

As you may well know from stories in the press, the title refers to nationwide drug dealing networks, which persuade and coerce children into trafficking drugs from the cities to country and coastal areas.

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Love Child (12A) |Close-Up Film Review

November 13, 2020November 13, 2020 Carol Allen Leila, Love Child, Mani, Sahand

Love Child is a remarkably intimate documentary, filmed over six years, which tells the story of a refugee family from Iran and their years spent in limbo in Turkey waiting for the UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) to process their application for refugee status.

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The Secret Garden (PG) |Close-Up Film Review

October 22, 2020October 22, 2020 Carol Allen Amir Wilson, The Secret Garden

Despite its PG certificate this latest version, which has a slightly different take on Frances Hodgson Burnett’s classic tale, is perfectly suitable for adults.

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Summer of 85 (15) | Close-Up Film Review

October 22, 2020October 22, 2020 Carol Allen Benjamin Voisin, Félix Lefebvre, Philippine Velge, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi

This beautifully made and very affecting film is a labour of love by its director François Ozon, who has dreamed of making it ever since he read the novel on which it is based, when he was a teenager.

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Carmilla (15) |Close-Up Film Review

October 15, 2020October 15, 2020 Carol Allen Carmilla, Devrim Lingnau, Greg Wise, Hannah Rae, Jessica Raine, Tobias Menzies

Moving a long way away from the 19th century vampire tale on which this is based, writer/director Emily Harris in her solo feature film debut has adapted the story into one of female sexual suppression and discovery.

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Monsoon (12A) |Close-Up Film Review

September 25, 2020September 25, 2020 Carol Allen David Tran, Henry Golding, Monsoon, Parker Sawyers

This film in many ways mirrors the director’s own experience, in that when Hong Khaou was a baby his Cambodian Chinese family fled from the Khmer rouge in Cambodia, initially to Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City).

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With the cinemas now once again closed, we will continue to  carry reviews of as many of the new vod/online and DVD/Blu-Ray releases as our team can cover.

Video On Demand

  • The White Tiger (15) | Close-Up Film Review
  • The Mole Agent (15) | Close-up Film Review
  • Il Mio Corpo (15) | Close-Up Film Review
  • Relic (15) | Close-Up Film Review
  • SYNCHRONIC will now release on digital January 29th.
  • Audrey: More Than an Icon (PG) | Close-Up Film Review

DVD/Blu-Ray

  • Tomorrow I’ll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea (12) | Home Ents Review
  • The Mole Agent (15) | Close-up Film Review
  • Cocoon (15) | Close-Up Film Review
  • Liberté (18) | Close-Up Film Review
  • OUT NOW – Russian sci-fi blockbuster The Blackout: Invasion Earth
  • House of Bamboo (PG) | Home Ents Review

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