Blithe Spirit – Coming Soon
Best-selling crime novelist Charles (Dan Stevens) suffers from terrible writer’s block and is struggling to finish his first screenplay.
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Judi Dench
Red Joan (12A) | Close-Up Film Review
Joan (Judy Dench) is an apparently sweet little old retired librarian lady pottering about in her suburban home with her watercolours and her gardening. Until that is the police show up one day and arrest her for spying.
Read moreNothing Like a Dame (12A) | Close-Up Film Review
Dames Judi Dench, Eileen Atkins, Joan Plowright and Maggie Smith are icons of the acting profession. All now over 80 and good friends, who have at various times worked with each other
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Murder on the Orient Express (12A) | Home Ents Review
Apart from his awful, huge moustache, Kenneth Branagh, in his own adaptation of Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express, is an absolute delight. Branagh directs a stellar cast in this new version of the 1934 novel.
Read moreVictoria and Abdul (PG) | Close-Up Film Review
You might want to see wonderful Judi Dench as Queen Victoria but you’ll stay to enjoy a well-made film with a fascinating story. Certainly, it’s most likely not all true, but which ‘based on fact’ film is?
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