The Drifters (12) | Close-Up Film Review
Benjamin Bond’s directorial debut is a post-Brexit, modern-day romance, which depending on yours views on Brexit, you’ll ever love or hate.
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Author: Dave Smith
The Drifters (12) | Close-Up Film Review
Five Dates | Close-Up Film Review
Filmed and developed during lockdown, Five Dates is a completely live action, interactive rom-com film about the unpredictable world of digital dating.
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A Serial Killer’s Guide to Life (15) | Home Ents Review
If your a fan of British cult horrors Prevenge and Sightseers, then the darkly funny well-written, A Serial Killer’s Guide to Life is one to watch.
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Mission Control: The Unsung Heroes of Apollo | Close-Up Film Review
The British team behind this documentary came to the story after their excellent work on ‘The Last Man on the Moon’, which premiered at SXSW in 2015 and told the tale of Astronaut Gene Cernan. Cernan, who flew three times in space and twice to the Moon, and who died in January this year.
Read moreThe Dead Lands (15) | Close-Up Film Review
Set hundreds of years ago in New Zealand, director Toa Fraser’s film examines the people, spiritual beliefs and even fighting styles of a Māori tribe, with the movie’s dialogue all spoken in the endangered Māori language.
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Get Hard (15) Close-Up Film Review
Get Hard is Will Ferrell’s latest showcase of his ‘lovable buffoon’ catch-all persona which appears to have spanned several different
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Dior And I (12A) : Close-Up Film Review
In the spring of 2012, over eight short weeks, magic happens and a couture collection of suiting and dresses is
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The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water (U) : Close-Up Film Review
Anarchy Rules with Spongebob. There’s a lovely anarchic mood to the new SpongeBob movie; but there’s also an underwhelming tinge of familiarity.
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Blind (18) Close-Up Film Review
Blind is a bit of a brain tap, funny, sexually explicit and dark. Having won 11 awards including the Screenwriting
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Windscreenwiperman (E) Close-Up Film Review
What could be the very first entry in the ‘Guidebook to Good Parenting’? It surely would have to be:
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