Vortex (15) |Close-Up Film Review
Director Gaspar Noé who brought you the almost unbearably painful 20 minute rape sequence in Irreversible now takes an equally unrelenting look at old age.
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Author: Carol Allen
Vortex (15) |Close-Up Film Review
Barry and Joan (12A) |Close-Up Film Review
In the seventy odd years they have been together, Barry and Joan Grantham embody a living history of musical and comedy entertainment, as this delightful documentary demonstrates.
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Operation Mincemeat (12A) |Close-Up Film Review
This is based on the true story of an operation in World War 2, which changed the course of the war in Europe and which may be familiar to some film goers, as it was first made into a movie in 1956 under the title The Man Who Never Was.
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Parallel Mothers (15) |Close-Up Film Review
The parallel mothers of the title are two single women who find themselves accidentally pregnant and who meet when they share a room in the maternity hospital.
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The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (15) | Close-up film Review
Anyone, but particularly an actor, who doesn’t take themselves too seriously, has my respect and liking. In this case it’s Nicholas Cage. The title of the film says it all really.
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Benedetta (18) |Close-Up Film Review
Paul Verhoeven’s film is inspired by a report found in the archives of Florence of the trial for blasphemy and lesbianism of Benedetta, a young nun, which took place in the early 17th century.
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The Lost City (12A) |Close-Up Film Review
The deliberately derivative plot of The Lost City is a sort of cross between the Rider Haggardism of Indiana Jones and the romantic fantasies of Barbara Cartland and Mills and Boon.
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The Northman (15) |Close-Up Film Review
This Viking tale is not for the faint hearted. It is loaded with violence, living up to the historic Viking reputation, plus a bit of sex and a lot of mysticism. And it is very impressive.
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Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (12A)|Close-Up Film Review
If you are an avid reader of Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling’s work and the films made from it, you will really enjoy this third film in the Fantastic Beasts series, which purports to tell us more about the secret past of Albus Dumbledore.
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True Things (15) Close-Up Film Review
Writer/director Harry Wootliff’s first feature film Only You was an intimate and sensitively handled relationship drama about a couple whose love affair founders when they try and fail to have a baby.
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