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Rocks (12A) Close-Up Film Review

September 17, 2020September 22, 2020 Carol Allen Bukky Bakray, Kosar Ali, Rocks

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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Les Misérables (15) Close-Up Film Review

September 3, 2020September 3, 2020 Carol Allen Alexis Manenti, Damien Bonnard, Djebril Zonga, Issa Perica, Les Misérables

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

August 27, 2020August 27, 2020 Carol Allen Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Jessie Buckley, Keeley Hawes, Keira Knightley, Misbehaviour, Rhys Ifans

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

June 22, 2020June 22, 2020 Carol Allen Essie Davis, George Mackay, Nicholas Hoult, Orlando Schwerdt, Russell Crowe, True History of the Kelly Gang

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

June 22, 2020June 22, 2020 Carol Allen Greg Wise, Jason Flemyng, Kristin Scott Thomas, Military Wives, Sharon Horgan

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

June 14, 2020June 14, 2020 Carol Allen Aneurin Barnard, Ben Whishaw, Dev Patel, Hugh Laurie, THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF DAVID COPPERFIELD, Tilda Swinton

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

June 14, 2020June 14, 2020 Carol Allen Ben Whishaw, Emily Beecham, Kerry Fox, Kit Connor, Little Joe

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

June 13, 2020June 13, 2020 Carol Allen Aneurin Barnard, Radioactive, Rosamund Pike, Sam Riley

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

May 31, 2020May 31, 2020 Carol Allen Andy Hamilton, Hugh Dennis, Mark Addy, Ruth Madeley, Steve Evets, The Uncertain Kingdom

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

May 10, 2020May 17, 2020 Carol Allen 1917, Claire Duburcq, Dean-Charles Chapman, George Mackay

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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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
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DVD/Blu-Ray

  • Tomorrow I’ll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea (12) | Home Ents Review
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  • Cocoon (15) | Close-Up Film Review
  • Liberté (18) | Close-Up Film Review
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