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Top Gun:  Maverick 
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Top Gun:  Maverick  (12A) | Close-Up Film Review

May 29, 2022May 29, 2022 Carol Allen Jennifer Connelly, Miles Teller, Tom Cruise, Top Gun:  Maverick, Val Kilmer

The story acknowledges that some three decades have gone by.  Maverick (Cruise) has stayed with the navy, refusing all offers of promotion which would have tied him to a desk job, preferring to remain as a leading test pilot. 

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Sam AShraf, Rakel Lenora Fløttum - Innocents - 2 ©Mer Film
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The Innocents  (15) | Close-Up Film Review

May 19, 2022May 19, 2022 Carol Allen Alva Brynsmo Ramstad, Eskil Vogt, Rakel Lenora Fløttum, Sam Ashraf

The title is ironic.   This film at first might appear to be about the innocence of childhood, but writer/director Eskil Vogt’s story soon becomes something much darker. 

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Benediction  (12A) |Close-Up Film Review

May 19, 2022May 19, 2022 Carol Allen Benediction, Calam Lynch, Jack Lowden, Jeremy Irvine, Peter Capaldi, Simon Russell Beale

Terence Davies’s biopic of First World War poet Siegfried Sassoon is flawed but totally fascinating. 

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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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Vortex  (15) |Close-Up Film Review

May 14, 2022May 14, 2022 Carol Allen Alex Lutz, Dario Argento, Françoise Lebrun, Vortex

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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Barry and Joan
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Barry and Joan  (12A) |Close-Up Film Review

May 9, 2022May 9, 2022 Carol Allen Barry and Joan, Barry Grantham, Joan Grantham

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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Milena Smit as Ana, Penélope Cruz as Janis in PARALLEL MOTHERS.
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Parallel Mothers (15) |Close-Up Film Review

April 30, 2022May 1, 2022 Carol Allen Israel Elejalde, Milena Smit, Parallel Mothers, Penelope Cruz

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

April 22, 2022April 22, 2022 Carol Allen Nicholas Cage, Pedro Pascal, Sharon Horgan, The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent

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, which is released in cinemas in UK & Ireland on 15 April 2022
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Benedetta  (18) |Close-Up Film Review

April 15, 2022April 15, 2022 Carol Allen Benedetta, Charlotte Rampling, Daphne Patakia, Virginie Efira

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 Northman
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The Northman  (15) |Close-Up Film Review

April 15, 2022April 15, 2022 Carol Allen Alexander Skarsg, Claes Bang, Ethan Hawke, Nicole Kidman, The Northman

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 will be released nationwide on 8th April 2022 by Warner Bros. Pictures
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Fantastic Beasts:  The Secrets of Dumbledore  (12A)|Close-Up Film Review

April 7, 2022April 7, 2022 Carol Allen Eddie Redmayne, Fantastic Beasts:  The Secrets of Dumbledore, Jude Law, Mads Mikkelson

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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