Rocks (12A) Close-Up Film Review
15 year old Rocks (Bukky Bakray) is a sociable East End teenager, who enjoys her school and her diverse circle of friends, including her bestie Sumaya (Kosar Ali).
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Author: Carol Allen
Les Misérables (15) Close-Up Film Review
Although borrowing its title from Victor Hugo’s novel, this is a contemporary film, set in Montfermeil suburb north of Paris, where Hugo wrote and set part of his story and where many members of France’s socially deprived black and Muslim immigrant communities now live.
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Misbehaviour (12A) | Close-Up Film Review
Misbehaviour is in the tradition of other cinema versions of idiosyncratically British events in our social and political history such as The Full Monty, Calendar Girls and Pride.
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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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