Skip to content
Tuesday, April 20, 2021
Latest:
  • I Start Counting (15) | Home Ents Review
  • Karloff at Columbia (12) | Home Ents Review
  • Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard – In Cinemas June 23.
  • Start of Shoot FISHERMAN’S FRIENDS 2
  • Me, You, Madness (18) | Close-Up Film Review

close-upfilm

close-upfilm

  • Cinema Reviews
  • Home Ents Reviews
  • Features
  • Trailers
  • Interviews

Author: Dave Smith

Reviews Video on Demand 

The Drifters (12) | Close-Up Film Review

April 4, 2021April 9, 2021 Dave Smith Jonathan Ajayi, Lucie Bourdeu, Tia Bannon

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.

Read more
Reviews 

Five Dates | Close-Up Film Review

November 17, 2020November 17, 2020 Dave Smith Demmy Ladipo, Five Dates, Georgia Hirst, Georgia Small, Mandip Gill, Marisa Abela, Sinéad Harnett, Taheen Modak

Filmed and developed during lockdown, Five Dates is a completely live action, interactive rom-com film about the unpredictable world of digital dating.

Read more
News 

A Serial Killer’s Guide to Life (15) | Home Ents Review

January 14, 2020July 2, 2020 Dave Smith A Serial Killer’s Guide to Life, Ben Lloyd-Hughes, Katie Brayben, Poppy Roe, Staten Cousins-Roe

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.

Read more
Reviews 

Mission Control: The Unsung Heroes of Apollo | Close-Up Film Review

April 5, 2017July 2, 2020 Dave Smith 'Mission Control: The Unsung Heroes of Apollo', Documentary film, Space Race

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 more
Reviews 

The Dead Lands (15) | Close-Up Film Review

May 28, 2015 Dave Smith Action film, featured, Film, Hongi, James Rolleston, Lawrence Makoare, Māori people, New Zealand, Review, Te Kohe Tuhaka, Toa Fraser

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.

Read more
Reviews 

Get Hard (15) Close-Up Film Review

March 27, 2015 Dave Smith Etan Cohen, featured, Get Hard, Kevin Hart, Will Ferrell

Get Hard is Will Ferrell’s latest showcase of his ‘lovable buffoon’ catch-all persona which appears to have spanned several different

Read more
The catwalk in the documentary DIOR AND I
Reviews 

Dior And I (12A) : Close-Up Film Review

March 27, 2015 Dave Smith Christian Dior, D, documentary, fashion, featured, Frederic Tcheng, Raf Simmons

In the spring of 2012, over eight short weeks, magic happens and a couture collection of suiting and dresses is

Read more
The characters from The Spongebob Movie: Sponge Out Of Water
Reviews 

The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water (U) : Close-Up Film Review

March 27, 2015 Dave Smith animation, Antonio Banderas, family film, featured, s, Spongebob

Anarchy Rules with Spongebob. There’s a lovely anarchic mood to the new SpongeBob movie; but there’s also an underwhelming tinge of familiarity.

Read more
Reviews 

Blind (18) Close-Up Film Review

March 27, 2015 Dave Smith Blind, Ellen Dorrit Petersen, Eskil Vogt, featured, Henrik Rafaelsen

Blind is a bit of a brain tap, funny, sexually explicit and dark. Having won 11 awards including the Screenwriting

Read more
Reviews 

Windscreenwiperman (E) Close-Up Film Review

March 24, 2015 Dave Smith featured, Joe Hurst, Raphael Von Blumenthal, Sam Baron, Windscreenwiperman

  What could be the very first entry in the ‘Guidebook to Good Parenting’? It surely would have to be:

Read more
  • ← Previous

Click Here to Find Out More About Amazon Prime Video Channels

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

  • Me, You, Madness (18) | Close-Up Film Review
  • 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

DVD/Blu-Ray

  • I Start Counting (15) | Home Ents Review
  • Karloff at Columbia (12) | Home Ents Review
  • Silent Action (15) | 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

Features

  • Judas And The Black Messiah – You Will Know His Name Featurette
  • Some Reflections on the BFI London Film Festival 2020
  • The Hollywood Halloween Hanker
  • It’s that time of year – Halloween is here!
  • Interview With Stuntwoman Kelly Róisin

Find Us On Facebook

close-upfilm.com

Advertisement

Popular posts

  • Framing John DeLorean (15) | Home Ents Review
  • Rocks (12A) Close-Up Film Review
  • My Donkey, My Lover and I (12A) | Close-Up Film Review
  • ‘Nomadland’ Wins Big at BAFTA Awards – Complete List of Winners
  • Last Call (15) | Close-Up Film Review
  • About
  • Privacy policy
  • Site Map
Copyright © 2021 close-upfilm. All rights reserved.
Theme: ColorMag by ThemeGrill. Powered by WordPress.