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First Trailer For ‘The Craft: Legacy’

September 30, 2020September 30, 2020 Editor David Duchovny, Lovie Simone, Michelle Monaghan, The Craft: Legacy, Zoey Luna

The Craft’s reboot The Craft: Legacy will be released just in time for Halloween, hitting UK cinemas on October 28.

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AAAAAAAH (18) | Close-Up Film Review

October 19, 2015 Editor AAAAAAAH, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Lucy Honigman, Steve Oram, Toyah Willcox

Can you imagine what a Mike Leigh film would look like if the actors based all their lines/noises, behaviour and interactions on several hours of Richard Attenborough narrated Ape documentaries? If you can then you will have pictured something close to Steve Oram’s disquieting directorial debut AAAAAAAH.

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Sicario (15) | Close-Up Film Review

October 8, 2015 Editor Benicio del Toro, Emily Blunt, Josh Brolin, Review, Sicario, Victor Garber

Sicario, we are told in the film’s opening moments, and indeed at the start of every review of Denis Villeneuve’s latest feature, means hitman, but who exactly is calling the shots?

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Ed Wood (15) | Close-Up Film Review

September 1, 2015 Editor Bela Lugosi, cult movie, Edward D Wood Jr, Johnny Depp, Martin Landau, Plan 9 From Outer Space, Rudolph Grey, Tim Burton, transvestite, Worlds Worst Director

Ed Wood, a bio-flick about The World’s Worst Director (according to promoters in the 1990s) by one of the world’s

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Force Majeure (15) Close-Up Film Review

April 10, 2015 Editor 2014, featured, French Alps, Johannes Kuhnke, Kristofer Hivju, Lisa Loven Kongsli, Ruben Östlund, Sweden

An unassuming Swedish middle class family head to the French Alps for a skiing holiday

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Detachment (15) | Close-Up Film Review

July 19, 2012 Editor Adrien Brody, Christina Hendricks, Film, James Caan, Marcia Gay Harden, Review, Tony Kaye

With his feature film debut American History X, director Tony Kaye displayed a penchant for projects which directly tackle the

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Ill Manors (18) | Close-Up Film Review

June 19, 2012 Editor Anouska Mond, Ben Drew, Danielle Brent., drugs trade, Ed Skrein, gangs, hip hop, London, Natalie Press, Plan B, Riz Ahmed, youth culture

A discomforting, unflinching & relentless expose of the ravages of the drugs trade upon ghettoized, impoverished & abandoned youngsters.

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Rango (PG) | Close-Up Film Review

March 8, 2011 Editor animation, Film, Gore Verbinski, Isla Fisher, Johnny Depp, Rango, Review, Timothy Olyphant

Unlike so many of the animated movies that have graced out screens so far this year, the computer-animated comedy Rango does

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Patagonia (15) | Close-Up Film Review

March 8, 2011 Editor Film, Marta Lubos, Matthew Rhys, Nahuel Perez Biscayart, Patagonia, Review

Although based in historical fact this road movie (or more accurately two road movies rolled into one) is a flight

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The Amityville Horror (15) | Close-Up Film Review

October 1, 2005 Editor Andrew Douglas, horror, Melissa George, Philip Baker Hall, Ryan Reynolds, The Amityville Horror (2005 film)

Ryan Reynolds & Melissa George ramp up the shocks in re-make of the 1979 classic, true horror story of murder and demonic possession.

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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

  • Il Mio Corpo (15) | Close-Up Film Review
  • Relic (15) | Close-Up Film Review
  • SYNCHRONIC will now release on digital January 29th.
  • Audrey: More Than an Icon (PG) | Close-Up Film Review
  • Funny Boy (15) | Close-Up Film Review
  • County Lines (15) | Close-Up Film Review

DVD/Blu-Ray

  • Cocoon (15) | Close-Up Film Review
  • Liberté (18) | Close-Up Film Review
  • OUT NOW – Russian sci-fi blockbuster The Blackout: Invasion Earth
  • House of Bamboo (PG) | Home Ents Review
  • Train to Busan Presents: Peninsula (15) | Close-Up Film Review
  • Goodbye, Dragon Inn (PG) | Close-Up Film Review

Features

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  • The Hollywood Halloween Hanker
  • It’s that time of year – Halloween is here!
  • Interview With Stuntwoman Kelly Róisin
  • Over The Moon | The Making of “Rocket to the Moon” | Netflix

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