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Author: Colin Dibben

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Breeder (18) |Home Ents Review

February 14, 2021February 14, 2021 Colin Dibben Anders Heinrichsen, Breeder, Morten Holst, Sara Hjort Ditlevsen, Signe Egholm Olsen

With a great set-up that mixes corporate thriller and medical horror, Breeder develops its story in a familiar and brutal direction.

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Possessor (18) | Close-Up Film Review

January 31, 2021January 31, 2021 Colin Dibben Andrea Riseborough, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Sean Bean, Tuppence Middleton

Tasya (Riseborough) is an assassin who ‘body-jacks’ patsies to get to her targets. Colleagues at her hi-tech brain implants company do the pre-assassination dirty work; kidnapping and surgically altering the brains of the dupes.

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Tomorrow I’ll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea (12) | Home Ents Review

January 24, 2021January 24, 2021 Colin Dibben Jiri Sovak, Petr Kostka, Tomorrow I’ll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea, Vladimir Mensik

This warm-hearted, Soviet-era sci-fi comedy blends time travel paradoxes, ‘Allo-‘Allo-style Third Reichisms and good-natured domestic farce.

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Liberté (18) | Close-Up Film Review

January 10, 2021January 10, 2021 Colin Dibben Laura Poulvet, Liberté

A period drama about sex and libertinage that manages to be both intense, immersive and tedious. Liberté encapsulates the exasperations and provocations of slow cinema rather well, but it may be considered obscene by some of the arthouse audience.

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Relic (15) | Close-Up Film Review

January 7, 2021January 7, 2021 Colin Dibben Emily Mortimer, Robyn Nevin

A haunted house horror film that packs a powerful emotional punch, Relic explores the familial love that can coexist with our dread of mental and physical deterioration.

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House of Bamboo (PG) | Home Ents Review

December 5, 2020January 7, 2021 Colin Dibben House of Bamboo, Robert Ryan, Robert Stack, Shirley Yamaguchi

The most beautiful crime thriller ever made, House of Bamboo is an absolute must see, both for fans of crime film and of CinemaScope colour cinematography.

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Train to Busan Presents: Peninsula (15) | Close-Up Film Review

November 28, 2020November 28, 2020 Colin Dibben Gang Dong-won, Kwon Hae-hyo, Lee Jung-Hyun, Train to Busan Presents: Peninsula

There are flashes of style in this zombie film sequel, but it ultimately feels like ‘just another zombie film’. Which is disappointing, given how original Train to Busan was.

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Goodbye, Dragon Inn (PG) | Close-Up Film Review

November 23, 2020November 23, 2020 Colin Dibben Chen Hsiang-Chyi, Goodbye Dragon Inn, Kiyonobu Mitamura, Lee Kang-Sheng, Miao Tien, Shih Chun

A massive old cinema is closing down. On the last night, as torrential rain falls on Taipei, King Hu’s wuxia classic Dragon Inn is playing in an almost empty auditorium.

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Circus of Horrors (15) | Home Ents Review

October 11, 2020October 11, 2020 Colin Dibben Anton Diffring, Circus of Horrors, Donald Pleasance, Erika Remberg, Jane Hylton, Kenneth Griffith, Yvonne Montaur

Daft and overblown, this film looks great in a 4K restoration. But it is so repressed, in such a dull, British way, that it is ultimately a bit of a letdown.

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The Strangers (15) | Home Ents Review

September 30, 2020September 30, 2020 Colin Dibben Gemma Ward, Kip Weeks, Laura Margolis, Liv Tyler, Scott Speedman

The best home invasion film of the noughties is out now on a Limited Edition Blu-ray. It’s time to think again about what makes The Strangers so good. There are lessons to be learned.

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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

  • Wilderness (15) | Close-Up Film Review
  • Sound of Metal (15) | Close-Up Film Review
  • Last Call (15) | Close-Up Film Review
  • The Drifters (12) | Close-Up Film Review
  • The Mauritanian (15) | Close-Up Film Review
  • Minari (12) | Close-Up Film Review

DVD/Blu-Ray

  • Silent Action (15) | Home Ents Review
  • Me, You, Madness (18) | Home Ents Review
  • I Was at Home, But … (12) | Home Ents Review
  • The Lucky Stars Collection (15)| Home Ents Review
  • Nightwing/ Shadow of the Hawk (15) | Home Ents Review
  • Mädchen in Uniform (PG) | Home Ents Review

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