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First Trailer For ‘The Craft: Legacy’

September 30, 2020September 30, 2020 Editor David Duchovny, Lovie Simone, Michelle Monaghan, The Craft: Legacy, Zoey Luna

The Craft’s reboot The Craft: Legacy will be released just in time for Halloween, hitting UK cinemas on October 28.

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AAAAAAAH (18) | Close-Up Film Review

October 19, 2015 Editor AAAAAAAH, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Lucy Honigman, Steve Oram, Toyah Willcox

Can you imagine what a Mike Leigh film would look like if the actors based all their lines/noises, behaviour and interactions on several hours of Richard Attenborough narrated Ape documentaries? If you can then you will have pictured something close to Steve Oram’s disquieting directorial debut AAAAAAAH.

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Sicario (15) | Close-Up Film Review

October 8, 2015 Editor Benicio del Toro, Emily Blunt, Josh Brolin, Review, Sicario, Victor Garber

Sicario, we are told in the film’s opening moments, and indeed at the start of every review of Denis Villeneuve’s latest feature, means hitman, but who exactly is calling the shots?

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Ed Wood (15) | Close-Up Film Review

September 1, 2015 Editor Bela Lugosi, cult movie, Edward D Wood Jr, Johnny Depp, Martin Landau, Plan 9 From Outer Space, Rudolph Grey, Tim Burton, transvestite, Worlds Worst Director

Ed Wood, a bio-flick about The World’s Worst Director (according to promoters in the 1990s) by one of the world’s

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Force Majeure (15) Close-Up Film Review

April 10, 2015 Editor 2014, featured, French Alps, Johannes Kuhnke, Kristofer Hivju, Lisa Loven Kongsli, Ruben Östlund, Sweden

An unassuming Swedish middle class family head to the French Alps for a skiing holiday

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Jauja (15) Close-Up Film Review

April 10, 2015April 18, 2022 Editor Argentina, Ghita Nørby, Jauja, Lisandro Alonso, Viggo Mortensen, Viilbjørk Malling Agger

auja (pronounced how-huh, in case you were wondering) is not a film for the impatient. Or even the moderately patient, come to that. Lisandro Alonso’s period drama, which is set in Patagonia during the ‘Conquest of the Desert’ (a military campaign in the 1800s to rid the South American region of aboriginals), trudges along with deliberate sluggishness, stretching out each and every scene as if it were made of non-breakable elastic.

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