My Favourite Cake (12A) |Close-Up Film Review
What a lovely little film! With her husband dead some 30 years, and now aged 70, Mahin (Lili Farhadpour) misses her old life.
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Author: Carlie Newman
My Favourite Cake (12A) |Close-Up Film Review
Lee (15) |Close-Up Film Review
The story of the renowned American war photographer and journalist Elizabeth ‘Lee’ Miller has finally and finely been made in the UK with Kate Winslet starring as Lee. It is also Winslet who has primarily been moving the film forward over eight years.
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The 68th BFI London Film Festival 2024
The Press launch took place this week and it looks as though we have a good number of excellent films to look forward to.
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Made in England: The films of Powell and Pressburger (12A) |Close-Up Film Review
This is a film for anyone who is interested in the history of filmmaking, important directors and amazing films.
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Bleeding Love (15) |Close-Up Film Review
While Ewan McGregor who plays the father, and his real-life daughter Clara McGregor, who plays his estranged daughter in the film, obviously have a great chemistry together,.
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Hard Miles (12A) |Close-Up Film Review
This is another ‘overcoming a bad background to reach success’ stories. But it is well-directed by R.J. Daniel Hanna and has something new to say about this particular group of boys.
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A Mother’s Instinct (15) |Home Ents Review
The first part of this film is absolutely riveting but it then descends into a kind of grand guignol. A sort of Fatal Attraction type of psychological thriller.
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The Teachers’ Lounge (12A) |Close-Up Film Review
Mesmerising from start to finish the film is completely absorbing making one wonder what is going to happen next. One scenario presents to be followed by a reversal a few scenes later.
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Vindication Swim (PG) |Close-Up Film Review
Along with most of you I suspect, I had never heard of Mercedes Gleitze (played by Kristen Callaghan here) until I saw this film. Based on the true life story of the first British woman to swim the English Channel in 1920s England.
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Hamlet (12) |Close-Up Film Review
This is HAMLET starring 84 year-old Ian McKellen as Hamlet, not the filmed version of the stage play that McKellen was in in 2021, but a completely new film.
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