Napoleon (15) | Close-Up Film Review
Ridley Scott has directed a film which has magnificently filmed battle scenes and elaborately staged indoor events.
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Author: Carlie Newman
Napoleon (15) | Close-Up Film Review
Golda (12A) |Close-Up Film Review
The film focuses on how Prime Minister Golda Meir dealt with the Yom Kippur war in Israel in 1973.
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A Haunting in Venice (12A) |Close-Up Film Review
Kenneth Branagh does himself and Agatha Christie proud as he both directs and stars in A Haunting in Venice. Together with Michael Green, who wrote the screenplay, he manages to portray the period of the story and the gloomy weather and setting of a rainy Venice.
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Bolan’s Shoes (12A) Close-Up Film Review
This is a rather strange and somewhat difficult to follow film. However, there are some good performances, particularly from Timothy Spall as Jimmy, a man who we first meet as a child.
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My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3 (12A) Close-Up Film Review
Hot sunshine, very warm and some nice scenery. Sounds like my back garden but with My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3, we are, of course, in Greece with the Portokalos family once again.
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L’immensita (12A) |Close-Up Film Review
Penelope Cruz, playing the beautiful mother, is the obvious star of this quirky story, but Luana Giuliani shines brightly as her older daughter.
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Oppenheimer (15) |Close-Up Film Review
Christopher Nolan has given us a blockbuster that has real heart behind it. It is a superb production with an outstanding performance by Cillian Murphy as J Robert Oppenheimer, the ‘father of the atomic bomb.’
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Mad About the Boy (12A) |Close-Up Film Review
Noel Coward was such a very special artist – he wrote, he composed, he sang and acted. And all superbly. From the age of two he was a performer, but his accomplishments went far beyond simply being on stage.
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Heathers: The Musical (15) |Home Ents Review
Capturing the excitement, energy and enthusiasm of the stage play, this Heathers: The Musical has been filmed on stage at The Other Palace in London.
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Bookclub (12A) |Close-Up Film Review
Back to amuse us again, the four actresses, all over 70 now, embark on another journey together. This time the lifelong friends, recovering from the Covid pandemic, agree to go together to Italy in advance of Vivien’s marriage to Arthur.
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