Brides (15) |Close-Up Film Review
This is a fictional story of two 15 year old girls who run away from home in Wales to go to Syria and become ISIS brides.
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Author: Carol Allen
Brides (15) |Close-Up Film Review
The Naked Gun – (15) |Close-Up Film Review
When you think of actor Liam Neeson, it’s as the Oscar winning serious actor of Schindler’s List or the now ageing hero, who saves the day for the less able among us in various action films.
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The Big, Bold, Beautiful Journey (15) |Close-Up Film Review
This exercise in magical realism is a romance between Sarah (Margot Robbie) and David (Colin Farrell), two strangers who meet at a wedding.
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The Glassworker (12A) |Close-Up Film Review
The Glassworker is a landmark film in the history of animation in that it is the first hand drawn animation to come out of Pakistan.
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Solo (15) |Close-Up Film Review
Solo, a gay love story set in the world of Montreal’s drag artists.
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Downton Abbey: the Grand Finale (PG) |Close-Up Film Review
“Grand Finale” eh? Or is it? In this one the Crawley family, staff and friends are about to embark on the 1930s.
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Islands (15) |Close-Up Film Review
Sam Riley plays Tom, a former tennis pro now working as coach to the well-heeled guests at a smart hotel in the Canary Islands.
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Paul and Paulette take a bath (15) |Close-Up Film Review
There have been some very successful films about Americans in Paris from the classic musical An American in Paris (1951) to Woody Allen’s literary fantasy Midnight in Paris (2011).
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The Courageous (Les Courageux) (12A) |Close-Up Film Review
This story of a young mother and her three children living on the edges of society with no money is not something you might associate with Switzerland, land of high finance and worthy burghers.
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The Roses (15) |Close-Up Film Review
This is an update of the 1989 film War of the Roses, which starred Kathleen Turner and Michael Douglas as a divorcing couple at war with each other.
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