January 31, 2026

Emma Thompson

Good Luck to You, Leo Grande  (15) | Close-Up Film Review
 Good Luck to You, Leo Grande  (15) Review

Good Luck to You, Leo Grande  (15) | Close-Up Film Review

Carol Allen September 6, 2022 0
Emma Thompson plays Nancy, a widowed retired schoolteacher, who has never experienced the joy of sex and...
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Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical  (PG) |Close-Up Film Review
 Director Matthew Warchus’s award winning stage production of Matilda the Musical has been packing ‘em in since it opened in 2010. So not surprisingly the producers behind the film version have decided to put that too into Warchus’s skilled hands.

Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical  (PG) |Close-Up Film Review

Carol Allen February 6, 2023 1
Director Matthew Warchus’s award winning stage production of Matilda the Musical has been packing ‘em in since it opened...
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What’s Love Got to Do with it?  (12) |Close-Up Film Review
 The writer/co-producer of this unjudgmental film about the Asian culture of arranged marriage in the modern world is Jemima Khan, who was formerly married to cricket star and former Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan, so she knows what she’s talking about in this affectionate and unusual rom-com.

What’s Love Got to Do with it?  (12) |Close-Up Film Review

Carol Allen February 24, 2023 0
The writer/co-producer of this unjudgmental film about the Asian culture of arranged marriage in the modern world...
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