Three Wishes for Cinderella (PG)|Close-Up Film Review
Looking almost grittily medieval but with 110% feelgood factor, this is surely the ultimate 1970s fairytale film for Christmas.
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Author: Colin Dibben
Three Wishes for Cinderella (PG)|Close-Up Film Review
From Roger Moore with Love (12A) |Close-Up Film Review
How did a policeman’s son from a dodgy bit of South London go from such lowly origins via a stint as a knitwear catalogue model to becoming one of the most recognisable actors in the world?
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All We Imagine as Light (15) |Close-Up Film Review
The 2024 Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix winner is a poetic portrait of three women finding their way in contemporary Mumbai.
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Dark Winds Season 2 (15) |Home Ents Review
There’s less background showing the Navajo or Diné way of life in this season of the 1970s-set reservation cop show, but the Native American characters still intrigue.
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Cooking Price-wise (E) |Home Ents Review
Celebrity cooking from a starkly lit, rather drab incarnation of the 1970s, Vincent Price’s legendary tv show doesn’t do frills but the great man’s bonhomie shines through.
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Juggernaut (15) |Home Ents Review
If you grew up in 1970s Britain, you will love this very Brit take on the disaster movie genre. But this is way more than a nostalgia fest: it’s a grimy, gritty suspense thriller with a wonderful cast.
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Days/Afternoon: Two Films by Tsai Ming-Liang (15) |Home Ents Review
Pure visual and auditory pleasure is on the menu in Days, a contemplative but engrossing film by the writer-director of Goodbye, Dragon Inn.
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Black Box Diaries (15) |Close-Up Film Review
This challenging, courageous and thought-provoking documentary follows a young Japanese woman on her quest to bring her rapist to justice.
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Broken Oath (15) |Home Ents Review
Top-notch action from Angela Mao, the first lady of kung fu cinema. For once, all the elements of a Golden Harvest martial arts production are aligned and work well.
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The Oblong Box (15) |Home Ents Review
A classy bit of late 1960s Hammer-style horror that bigs up the gore and drifts into Jekyll and Hyde territory, with added splashes of voodoo and zombies. It’s no classic but the script sessions must have been fun.
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