Name: Wonka (PG) |Close-Up Film Review
Released: 2023
Duration: 116
Rating: 4
Cast: Timothy Chalamet, Olivia Coleman, Hugh Grant

Wonka will be released in cinemas across the UK on 8th December 2023

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Carol Allen December 7, 2023December 7, 2023 Hugh Grant, Olivia Coleman, Timothy Chalamet, Wonka

Wonka (PG) |Close-Up Film Review

Wonka is a big chocolate Christmas cake of a film, stuffed with sugar, covered in icing and cream with a touch of rum.

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Carol Allen December 7, 2023December 7, 2023 Kamila Urzedowska, Miroslaw Baka, Robert Gulaczyk, Sonia Mietielica, The Peasants

The Peasants (15) |Close-Up Film Review

Several years ago the Polish husband and wife team of DK Welchman and Hugh Welchman made a beautiful film called Loving Vincent, in which they wove a story around the characters and locations in the paintings of Vincent Van Gogh.

Eileen (Thomasin McKenzie) is a mousy young woman, who works as a secretary in a juvenile detention centre, where she’s pretty much ignored by her colleagues.

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Carol Allen November 30, 2023November 30, 2023 Anne Hathaway, Eileen, Thomasin McKenzie

Eileen (15) | close-Up Film Review

The story is set in Boston in 1964. Eileen is a mousy young woman, who works as a secretary in a juvenile detention centre, where she’s pretty much ignored by her colleagues.

There is something totally endearing about the way Finnish film maker Aki Kaurismäki tells his film stories – their sly, quiet humour, simplicity and empathy with his fellow human beings.

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Carol Allen November 30, 2023November 30, 2023 Alma Pöysti, Fallen Leaves, Jussi Vatanen

Fallen Leaves (12A) |Close-Up Film Review

There is something totally endearing about the way Finnish film maker Aki Kaurismäki tells his film stories – their sly, quiet humour, simplicity and empathy with his fellow human beings.

Like Leonard Bernstein, the maestro of the title, Bradley Cooper must have phenomenal energy. He co-wrote the script (with Josh Singer), co-produced the film, starred in it and directed it – at the urging of the originally slated director and co-producer Stephen Spielberg. Who is Jewish.

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Carol Allen November 24, 2023November 24, 2023 Bradley Cooper, Carey Mulligan, Maestro

Maestro (15) |Close-Up Film Review

Like Leonard Bernstein, the maestro of the title, Bradley Cooper must have phenomenal energy. He co-wrote the script, co-produced the film, starred in it and directed it

The story concerns a middle aged woman and her elderly mother, both played by Tilda Swinton, who book in at a remote hotel.

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Carol Allen November 24, 2023November 24, 2023 Carly Simon-Davies, Joseph Mydell, The Eternal Daughter, Tilda Swinton

The Eternal Daughter (12A) |Close-Up Film Review

The story concerns a middle aged woman and her elderly mother, both played by Tilda Swinton, who book in at a remote hotel.

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Carol Allen November 19, 2023November 19, 2023 Charles Melton, Julianne Moore, May December, Natalie Portman

May December (15) |Close-Up Film Review

This is a strong and delicate story, very well handled by Todd Haynes with three subtle and nuanced performances from the leading actors.

Rising directorial star Emerald Fennell’s second film is very different in tone and subject from her admirable debut Promising Young Woman.

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Carol Allen November 19, 2023November 19, 2023 Barry Keoghan, Jacob Elordi, Rosamund Pike, Saltburn

Saltburn (15) |Close-Up Film Review

Rising directorial star Emerald Fennell’s second film is very different in tone and subject from her admirable debut Promising Young Woman.

Norwegian writer-director Kristoffer Borgli here explores the bizarrely interesting idea of a boringly normal guy – zoology professor Paul Matthews (Nicholas Cage), - who becomes virally famous when he keeps popping up in other people’s dreams.

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Carol Allen November 9, 2023November 9, 2023 Julianne Nicholson, Michael Cera, Nicholas Cage

Dream Scenario (15) |Close-Up Film Review

Norwegian writer-director Kristoffer Borgli here explores the bizarrely interesting idea of a boringly normal guy – zoology professor Paul Matthews (Nicholas Cage), – who becomes virally famous when he keeps popping up in other people’s dreams.

DVD/Blu Ray

Carol Allen November 6, 2023November 6, 2023 Hayley Atwell, Rebecca Ferguson, Tom Cruise, Vanessa Kirby

Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (12) |Close-Up Film Review

This film has everything an action movie needs. Plenty of breathtaking action, strong story and characters, star actors and slick, pacey direction. Mission Impossible is back – bigger than ever.