Legend of the Mountain (PG) | Home Ents Review
This wonderful supernatural fantasy is also a love song to the natural world and the traditional landscapes of Song Dynasty Chinese art.
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Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story (12) | Close-Up Film Review
A compelling mix of Golden Age Hollywood glamour, inspirational story, drug addiction revelations and cosmetic surgery tragedy. Bombshell kicks off with a journalistic angle which adds drama and the documentary is interspersed with the memories of family members, which add tangible pathos.
Read moreLoveless (15) | Close-Up Film Review
An icy and ambivalent domestic tragedy, set amongst the selfish and self-important Russian middle class. This is a film that fairly luxuriates in bad parenting, although it is also making a rather unsubtle point about materialism and selfishness in modern Russia, as we’ve come to expect from the director of Leviathan, Elena, The Banishment and The Return.
Read more78/52 (15) | Close-Up Film Review
Inappropriately gleeful, impassioned, intriguing and analytical, embrace your dark, inner geek with this documentary about the shower scene in Psycho. It re-invests the scene with much of the trauma the years have stripped from it and makes a good case for it being a key moment in cinema history
Read moreA Ghost Story (12A) | Close-Up Film Review
C (Affleck) and M (Mara) live together in a small suburban bungalow in Texas. After C dies in a car crash outside their home, he comes back to the bungalow as a ghost, a silent witness to M’s grieving process. When she moves out, the ghost finds itself anchored to the home, its disintegrating memories and experiences with the new tenants slowly giving way to something more cosmic.
Read moreAmerican Gods (18) | Home Ents Review
Outrageous glow-in-the-dark American mythology weirdness, with engaging turns by all three leads and supporting names too.
Read moreDavid Lynch: The Art Life (15) | Close-Up Film Review
One of a series of intimate portrayals of the great director, The Art Life is most successful when it sits back and watches David Lynch paint.
Read moreGenocidal Organ (15) | Close-Up Film Review
Cogent, hi-concept and violent, this striking near-future war film is a welcome step into proper storytelling for Japanese animation.
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Der müde Tod (Destiny) (PG) |Close-Up Film Review
This early film from the immensely inventive director Fritz Lang contains some haunting images and fascinating examples of early special effects. The framing narrative is unusually spooky, told with an unsettling mix of eerie set designs and fast-moving story.
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Suntan (15) | Close-Up Film Review
The painful case study of a pudgy, obsessive, middle-aged man given one last chance to have a drunken dance with youth.
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