Wicked (PG) |Close-Up Film Review
The movie tells the story of the early life of the two witches. We start in Oz and then go back to the girls meeting when they both attend Shiz university.
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Author: Carlie Newman
Wicked (PG) |Close-Up Film Review
London Film Festival 2024 Report 1
Press screenings started in advance. We have already seen some that are worthy of recommendation. And now we are nearly at the end of the LFF 2024.
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Girls Will Be Girls (15) |Close-Up Film Review
Very easy to watch and enjoy, GIRLS WILL BE GIRLS, which was a success at the London Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, is a new take on the coming-of-age genre.
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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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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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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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