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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Author: Carol Allen
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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Just Mercy (12A) | Close-Up Film Review
Just Mercy is based on the story of real life black lawyer Bryan Stephenson (Michael B. Jordan).
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We're Still Here
Due to the fact that the cinemas are now closed for the foreseeable future, new releases have now been put back until we can once more go to the movies. This week we would have been reviewing:
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And Then We Danced (15) | Close-Up Film Review
Set in the world of the National Georgian Ensemble dance school in Tbilisi, which trains young people in the strictly disciplined art of the country’s traditional dance.
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The Invisible Man (15) | Close-Up Film Review
This has little apart from the title to do with H.G. Wells’ story but is a contemporary based horror movie, born of the Universal Studios monster tradition/franchise.
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Downhill (15) | Close-Up Film Review
An American remake of the Scandinavian movie Force Majeure, this is perhaps predictably a somewhat lighter piece of work.
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