The Marbles (12A) |Close-Up Film Review
Director David Wilkinson’s wide ranging documentary is unashamedly partisan.
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Author: Carol Allen
The Marbles (12A) |Close-Up Film Review
The Choral (12A) |Close-Up Film Review
This film is reassuringly English in concept, with a production team that’s rather like a meeting up of old friends, who’ve collaborated so successfully in the past.
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Bugonia (15) |Close-Up Film Review
Anyone who is concerned about the conservation of the planet will realise the importance of saving the bees from threatened destruction.
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Relay (15) |Close-Up Film Review
The ever busy Riz Ahmed is on screen for most of the time – but doesn’t say a word until some considerable way into the film.
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Regretting You (12A) |Close-Up Film Review
The story opens with friends Morgan (Allison Williams) and Jonah (Dave Franco) chatting at a teenage beach party.
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Frankenstein (15) |Close-Up Film Review
For fans of director Guillermo del Toro it will be no surprise that this most visual of storyteller’s new version of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein story looks magnificent.
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Don’t Let’s go to the dogs tonight (12A) |Close-Up Film Review
The time is 1980, the end of the Zimbabwean war of independence. After years of guerilla war, the white population are fearful of the outcome of the election.
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Good Boy (15) |Close-Up Film Review
If you’re a dog lover even if you don’t go for horror films, you’ll love the dog in this. Indy is the director’s own dog and he’s obviously trying very hard to please his master.
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I Swear (15) Film Review
When people think about Tourette Syndrome the main issue that comes to mind is the sufferer’s uncontrollable use of bad language.
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Mr Blake at Your Service (Complètement cramé!)(PG) |Close-Up Film Review
Written and directed by French novelist Legarinier from his own novel, this odd but charming tale stars American John Malkovitch.
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