‘The Power of the Dog’ Dominates London Critics’ Circle Film Awards
Jane Campion’s “The Power of the Dog” won four major awards at the 42nd annual London Critics’ Circle Film Awards on Sunday.
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Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
Marvel Studios have debuted the teaser trailer and poster for “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness”
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First Clip From The Electrical Life Of Louis Wain
STUDIOCANAL, Film4, Shoebox, SunnyMarch and Amazon Studios today debut the first clip from Will Sharpe’s THE ELECTRICAL LIFE OF LOUIS WAIN, ahead of the film’s World Premiere at Telluride Film Festival later today.
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The Courier – ‘We Want You to Act’ Clip
Based on the true story of Greville Wynne (Cumberbatch), a British businessman who helped the CIA and MI6 penetrate the Soviet nuclear program during the Cold War, THE COURIER is a tale of bravery and heroic self-sacrifice.
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The Courier (12) |Close-Up Film Review
Tom O’Connor’s screenplay for this, inspired by a true story, is a cracking tale and considerably more enthralling than his Hitman’s Bodyguard comedies.
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Want to see more of 1917 – Then watch the IMAX version
Sam Mendes has crafted a film which, in this tale of two young British soldiers racing across enemy territory, sweeps across huge areas of devastated land, dead horses, deserted farmhouses and decomposing bodies. To show this the use of IMAX is almost essential in getting literally the whole picture.
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Walk With Me (PG) | Close-Up Film Review
The technique of “mindfulness” or “living in the moment”, which is based on Buddhist meditation, is becoming increasingly popular as a psychotherapy technique in the West. So this documentary about life in the monastery in rural France, which is led by Vietnamese born Zen Buddhist master Thich Nhat Hanh, couldn’t be more timely.
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Doctor Strange (12A) | Close-Up Film Review
This latest addition to the Marvel comics’ cinematic canon is a handsome looking beast, which benefits from a classy, largely British cast in the main roles and really stunning special effects.
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The movies have a habit of making the criminal underworld seem appealing, with its charismatic inhabitants idolised as men born into a life of racketeering and shallow graves, so casting Johnny Depp as one of America’s most infamously violent gangsters might seem a bit of a gamble. An actor who’s had a string of high-profile flops playing larger-than-life characters covered in prosthetic make-up, being asked to play, well, essentially the same thing.
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