The Nice Guys (15) | Close-Up Film Review
Shane Black makes the kind of scuzzy Raymond Chandler style detective noirs that you wish you’d read the book of before anyone had ever heard about it, they’re that cool.
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Warcraft (12A) | Close-Up Film Review
Warcraft has so much stacked against it from the pushing of the standby button; it’s based on a video game, and when can we honestly say that such source material, despite some promising titles – Silent Hill, Resident Evil – has translated into anything above risible?
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X-Men: Apocalypse (12A) | Close-Up Film Review
If you stuck around long enough after the end credits of the terrific Days of Future Past, you’ll have seen the springboard sting that launched this latest 80s’ encapsulating mutant mash-up.
Read MoreCaptain America: Civil War (12A) | Close-Up Film Review
If you take 2008’s Iron Man as the birth of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, then my Vision style mathematic skills would make our second comic-book versus skirmish in a matter of months the twelfth instalment in this sprawling world of spandex and glowing blue maguffins.
Read MoreSing Street (12A) | Close-Up Film Review
It’s that age-old story of boy meets girl, boy falls in love with girl, boy starts a band to impress girl. Our lead singer is Cosmo (Ferdia Walsh-Peelo), a young man at the center of a fractured family life in 1980’s Dublin.
Read MoreThe Jungle Book (PG) | Close-Up Film Review
Whether you mind if Disney continue to dig deep in its Aladdin’s cave of animated treasures for live action inspiration, fails to become a necessity within the first five minutes of Jon Favreau’s aping of the 1967 classic.
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Zootropolis (PG) | Close-Up Film Review
Zootropolis quickly evolves into something completely unexpected; a noir mystery adventure, featuring well-drawn central characters, and a plot with more subtext and resonant, responsible themes than most films you’re likely to see in 2016.
Read MoreThe Boy (15) | Close-Up Film Review
You wait forever for a porcelain faced freaky doll movie, then in the space of a couple of years, which admittedly isn’t that long in this most recyclable of genres, you get two.
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Kung-Fu Panda 3 (U) | Close-Up Film Review
The story is hardly original, in fact it’s hard to differentiate from the last film, focusing on a How to Train Your Dragon 2 stealing thread which finds Po (Jack Black) reunited with his long-lost father, Li (Bryan Cranston).
Read MoreDaddy’s Home (12a) | Close-Up FIlm Review
For all intents and purposes, Daddy’s Home feels like another of those dusted off scripts from the 1980’s that have recently populated the CV of Kevin Hart, and used to be tossed around by agents of Twins-era Arnold Schwarzenegger or Daddy Day Care-era Eddie Murphy.
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