February 17, 2026

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Dreaming Walls: Inside The Chelsea Hotel (15) |Close-Up Film Review
 Dreaming Walls: Inside The Chelsea Hotel, more or less, opens with a quote from Patti Smith. She says, “I’ve always liked to be where the big guys were”.

Dreaming Walls: Inside The Chelsea Hotel (15) |Close-Up Film Review

Ben Thomas January 19, 2023 0
Dreaming Walls: Inside The Chelsea Hotel, more or less, opens with a quote from Patti Smith. She...
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Avatar:  The Way of Water  (12A) |Close-Up Film Review
 It’s now thirteen years since James Cameron gave us the previous Avatar, at the end of which earthman Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) became a fully fledged Nav’I, on the far off moon Pandora, where the people are blue and earth people cannot breathe the atmosphere.   

Avatar:  The Way of Water  (12A) |Close-Up Film Review

Carol Allen December 15, 2022 0
It’s now thirteen years since James Cameron gave us the previous Avatar, at the end of which earthman...
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Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (PG) |Close-Up Film Review
 This film version of the story of the wooden puppet who longs to be a real boy is very different from the Disney one. This is after all del Toro, whose dark imagination gave us Pan’s Labyrinth and The Shape of Water.

Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (PG) |Close-Up Film Review

Carol Allen December 9, 2022 0
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