The Killing of Two Lovers (15) |Close-Up Film Review
A constantly engrossing film that challenges our preconceptions as it thrills along the way.
Read MoreA constantly engrossing film that challenges our preconceptions as it thrills along the way.
Read MoreThere are a lot of ‘Influencers’ around at the present time. The younger ones watch them avidly – on TikTok, on Instagram and other social media outlets.
Read MoreIt is good to see the excellent actress, Joanna Scanlon, being given a main part in a worthy film. At first Mary (Scanlon) is very unhappy when her husband, Ahmed (Nasser Memarzia) suddenly dies. She has been living a comfortable life with him.
Read MoreChloe Zhao’s Nomadland captures not just the activities of the itinerant travellers who people this film but their very innermost identities. And, of course, she uses her lead actress to perfection.
Read MoreYoung married couple Satoko (Hiromi Nagasaku) and Kiyokazu (Arata Iura) are very disappointed when in spite of all their efforts they are unable to conceive.
Read MoreWe shall never really know the truth of what happened when Mary Jo Kopechne, who had been in a car driven by Senator Ted Kennedy, drowned on Chappaquiddick Island. This film gives a seemingly plausible version.
Read MoreWhen successful real estate developer. Mick (Jeremy Piven) receives an unexpected phone call about his family, he rushes back to his home neighbourhood, Darby Heights in Pennsylvania, for the funeral.
Read MoreDirected by Francis Lee, the movie looks at the fossil collector, Mary (Kate Winslet) and weaves in a story about a visit from Charlotte Murchison (Saoirse Ronan) and her geologist husband, Roderick Murchison (James McArdle).
Read MoreIt is always worth watching anything starring Richard Jenkins. He invariably gives a very true and honest performance. In The Last Shift you can believe that he is Stanley, a chef in a fast-food outlet
Read MoreThis is a delightful, very French film which will surely brighten your day! We meet Antoinette (Laure Calamy from Call My Agent) in her classroom with a full class of 8-year-olds.
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