Train to Busan Presents: Peninsula (15) | Close-Up Film Review
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
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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Eternal Beauty (15) | Close-Up Film Review
This is billed as a comedy, but there are few if any laughs here. Dealing with mental health issues, it is often uncomfortable viewing. Sally Hawkins performance is full on with facial contortions and awkward body movements.
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Circus of Horrors (15) | Home Ents Review
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
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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Ghost Hunting (E)|Home Ents Review
A superb piece of “survivor cinema”, Ghost Hunting is tense, humane, disturbing and witty. It’s also very well shot and edited. For all of these reasons, the film won the Silver Bear for Best Documentary at the 2017 Berlin Film Festival.
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Weathering with You (12) Home Ents Review
With a beauty that is patronising and an intensity that’s vacuous and frankly rather annoying, this is a film so cute you want to punch it.
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The Tomb: Devil’s Revenge – Out Monday
All hell is about to break loose as Shatner takes on Satan, when 4Digital unleashes The Tomb: Devil’s Revenge, on DVD and digital platforms from 14th September.
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Misbehaviour (12A) | Close-Up Film Review
Misbehaviour is in the tradition of other cinema versions of idiosyncratically British events in our social and political history such as The Full Monty, Calendar Girls and Pride.
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WEATHERING WITH YOU – available on DVD, Blu-ray and Collectors Edition 28th September.
The creators of “Your Name” return with the UK box office hit drama that earlier in the year became Japan’s first anime entry for the Academy Awards’ Best International Feature Film in over 20 years.
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