Meanwhile on Earth (15) |Close-Up Film Review
This is a first live action film from French animation film maker Jérémy Clapin – although it does have an animation element.
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Author: Carol Allen
Meanwhile on Earth (15) |Close-Up Film Review
The Life of Chuck (15) |Close-Up Film Review
Although based on a Stephen King short story this is no horror film but an intriguing, somewhat philosophical tale.
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The Ceremony (15) |Close-Up Film Review
A story about illegal immigrants currently has an unfortunate topicality, though I doubt the film will gain much sympathy from the anti-immigration lobby.
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Battleship Potemkin (12A) |Close-Up Film Review
In case you don’t know, this classic of the silent cinema is the story of the naval mutiny in 1905, which preceded the actual Russian revolution by twelve years.
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Unmoored (15) |Close-Up Film Review
Maria is a successful tv presenter in Sweden whose life goes into crisis when her domineering husband Magnus is accused of a serious crime.
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Bambi: Tale of the Woods (Bambi, l’histoire d’une vie dans les bois) (PG) |Close-Up Film Review
Like Disney’s beloved animated film, this Bambi is based on Austrian writer Felix Salten’s story of that name.
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Weapons – (18) |Close-Up Film Review
This is an interesting American take on European scary fairy stories – The Pied Piper and Hansel and Gretel in particular.
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Marlee Matlin – Not Alone Any More (Cert TBC) |Close-Up Film Review
When the then 21 year old Marlee Matlin won the best actress Oscar in 1987 for her role as the deaf heroine in Children of a Lesser God it made big headlines.
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Gazer (15) |Close-Up Film Review
Gazer is the sort of film I want to like and support for the courage and determination of those who made it.
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Friendship (15)|Close-Up Film Review
Tim Robinson and Paul Rudd star in an uneven comedy about an unlikely male friendship.
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