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).
Read more15 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).
Read moreAlthough 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.
Read moreMisbehaviour 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.
Read moreThe 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.
Read moreDirected 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.
Read moreThe 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.
Read moreAustrian 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.
Read moreRadioactive is based on a graphic novel, in this case a fictionalized biography of the Nobel Prize winning scientist Marie Curie.
Read moreThis wide ranging and adventurous collection of twenty short films was initially intended as a response to the uncertainty of the post Brexit world.
Read moreLance 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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