Harvest (18) |Close-Up Film Review
The central character is nature loving Walter Thirsk (Caleb Landry Jones) who is good friends with the laird on whose land the village stands.
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Author: Carol Allen
Harvest (18) |Close-Up Film Review
Superman (12A) |Close-Up Film Review
In Gunn’s new take on the story Superman’s history is as read – all that bit about being sent to earth by his parents and so on.
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The Surfer (15) |Close-Up Film Review
Why an Irish writer and an Irish director would want to make a film about an Australian born American, who returns to the surfing beach of his childhood is a bit of mystery.
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28 Years Later (15) |Close-Up Film Review
The story, which is set 28 years after humankind first became infected by the rage virus, presupposes it has been contained inside the British Isles, which is now a quarantined area policed by Euro cops.
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Tornado (15) |Close-Up Film Review
This is Samurai Western set in late 18th century Scotland, which writer/director John Maclean chooses to see as being analogous with the early Wild West .
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Lollipop (15) |Close-Up Film Review
In her first feature film director Daisy-May Hudson is really picking up the social injustice baton from Ken Loach.
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Falling into Place (15) |Close-Up Film Review
German actress Aylin Tezel, directing her first feature not only wrote the screenplay but also stars in it.
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Goebbels and the Führer (15) Close-Up Film Review
Director Joachim Lang’s docudrama about how Hitler’s propagandist skilfully manipulated the German people uses an interesting and effective combination of actors and archive footage of the characters they are playing.
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Darling – (12A) |Close-Up Film Review
When Julie Christie burst onto the cinema screen in 1963 as the free-spirited Liz in Billy Liar it was though she lit the match which fired up the new feeling of freedom for young women in the swinging sixties.
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The Uninvited (15) |Close-Up Film Review
The film is inspired by a real life incident in writer/director Nadia Connors’ life, when an unknown elderly woman turned up at her Hollywood home, claiming it was where she lived.
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