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Cries and Whispers (15) |Close-Up Film Review

March 31, 2022March 31, 2022 Colin Dibben Harriet Andersson, Ingrid Thulin, Kari Sylwan, Liv Ullmann

Costume drama meets extreme cinema, with horror film elements, plus a suspicion of satire and exploitation film in the mix too. Cries and Whispers is intense enough to cover all these bases, while powerfully demonstrating the basic human need for physical intimacy and the basic human fears of pain and death.

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Amulet
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Amulet (15) |Close-Up Film Review

January 27, 2022January 27, 2022 Colin Dibben Alec Secareanu, Amulet, Carla Juri, Imelda Staunton

Actor turned writer-director Romola Garai, her actors and creative team have created a vividly unique horror film for our times. Amulet is unsettling, nightmarish, claustrophobic, scary, gory and pretty smart too.

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Séance
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Séance (18) |Home Ents Review

January 17, 2022January 17, 2022 Colin Dibben Ella-Rae Smith, Inanna Sarkis, Madisen Beaty, Séance, Suki Waterhouse

Appealingly deadzone, this horror thriller from the writer of You’re Next mixes schoolgirl nastiness, gore and supernatural trappings to nice effect.

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Session 9 was written and directed by Brad Anderson
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Session 9 (15) |Home Ents Review

December 27, 2021December 27, 2021 Colin Dibben David Caruso, Josh Lucas, Peter Mullan, Session 9, Stephen Gevedon

Spooky, real locations, the always watchable Mullan and Caruso and a compelling absence of special effects make this horror film something special.

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The Great Silence
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The Great Silence (15) |Home Ents Review

November 21, 2021November 21, 2021 Colin Dibben Frank Wolff, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Klaus Kinski, Luigi Pistilli, The Great Silence, Vonetta McGee

Bounty hunter Tigrero (Kinski) knows his days of making money from legalised murder are numbered, so he sets about trapping and killing as many outlaws as possible, as fast as he can.

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Full Alert (15) |Home Ents Review

November 21, 2021November 21, 2021 Colin Dibben Amanda Lee, Francis Ng, Full Alert, Jack Cao, Lau Ching-Wan

Cops and robbers, old school Hong Kong style: Ringo Lam’s gritty take on the genre provides some great action sequences but the whole thing looks a bit dated.

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Prisoners of the Ghostland
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Prisoners of the Ghostland (15) | Home Ents Review

November 14, 2021November 14, 2021 Colin Dibben Bill Moseley, Nick Cassavetes, Nicolas Cage, Prisoners of the Ghostland, Sofia Boutella

Crazy Nicolas Cage in a post-apocalyptic western with added samurai swordplay? It sounds brilliant. But maverick Japanese director Sono Sion doesn’t really deliver the goods.

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Cinematic Vengeance
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Cinematic Vengeance: 8 Kung Fu classics from director Joseph Kuo (15) Home Ents Review

November 14, 2021November 14, 2021 Colin Dibben Carter Wong, Cinematic Vengeance, Jack Long, Jeanie Chang, Peng Tien, Polly Ling-Feng Shang-Kuan, Yi-Min Li

Probably the best home entertainment experience of my year, this well-curated set of beautifully restored, old school kung fu films is a wonder in every way.

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Chuck Steel: Night of the Trampires (15) |Close-Up Film Review

October 27, 2021October 27, 2021 Colin Dibben Chuck Steel: Night of the Trampires, Samantha Coughlan

Chuck Steel is a pumped up and maxed out stop motion animation comedy homage to 80s action films. It is packed with gory horror fun that’s just right for Halloween.

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A scene from the film Limbo by Ben Sharrock
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Limbo (12) |Home Ents Review

October 24, 2021October 24, 2021 Colin Dibben Amir El-Masry, Kwabena Ansah, Limbo, Ola Orebiyi, Vikash Bhai

Omar (El-Masry) is a young Syrian who is awaiting a decision on his refugee status. He is living with half a dozen other refugees in a shared house in a remote and windswept location.

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