Special Correspondents (TV-MA) | Close-Up Film Review
What sounded like a heck of an offering from Ricky Gervais when it was announced way back in October of 2014 has unfortunately transpired to be a shallow effort from Gervais
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Victoria (15) | Close-Up Film Review
The UK premiere of Victoria was, quite fittingly, held at a nightclub – albeit at the reasonable mid-week time of 8pm.
Read moreSleeping With Other People (15) | Close-Up Film Review
Director Leslye Headland, whose last effort Bachelorette played out like a highly cynical version of Bridesmaids, is back with her own 21st Century version of When Harry Met Sally. Sleeping With Other People bears a lot of similarities to Rob Reiner’s late 80s classic romcom, and it’s not a bad thing.
Read moreScouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse (15) | Close-Up Film Review
The very simple premise of this horror comedy is also the name on the tin. Childhood friends Ben (Sheridan), Carter (Miller) and Augie (Morgan) are boy scouts who become embroiled in a zombie apocalypse upon returning to civilisation from a campout with their sad-act Scout Leader Rogers (David Koechner, having a lot of fun). There’s more to the plot than this, including classic teen movie vibes involving Ben and Carter wanting to ditch Scouts
Read moreCrimson Peak (15) | Close-Up Film Review
Guillermo Del Toro is back in his wheelhouse and so clearly relishing every moment of it. Crimson Peak is vintage Del Toro, as he pushes his gothic proclivities into overdrive on the amazing set that is Allerdale Hall. Set in the late 19th Century
Read moreThe Martian (12A) | Close-Up Film Review
Ridley Scott is back, and has this time turned his head to a less fantastical sort of sci-fi. The Martian, very faithfully based on the bestseller by Andy Weir, is extremely grounded in a plausible not-so-distant-future where manned missions to Mars are not only possible, but in their third iteration.
Read moreMe and Earl and The Dying Girl (12A) | Close-Up Film Review
Another of this year’s breakouts from Sundance, Alfonso Gomez-Rejon’s adaptation of Jesse Andrews’ book of the same name ticks all
Read moreThe Man From U.N.C.L.E. (12A) | Close-Up Film Review
Guy Ritchie wastes no time dropping us right into the thick of the action in his big screen reimagining of
Read moreMission Impossible: Rogue Nation (12A) | Close-Up Film Review
When you say “Mission Impossible 5” it engineers a universal reaction of “my God, really??”. The expectation is that, surely
Read moreMaggie (15) | Close-Up Film Review
Henry Hobson’s moody zombie-indie has so much atmosphere going for it that it’s almost suffocating. When Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Wade Vogel
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