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

Carol Allen Posted on 3 years ago 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.
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Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical  (PG) |Close-Up Film Review

Carol Allen Posted on 3 years ago 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.
3 min read

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

Carol Allen Posted on 3 years ago 0
The writer/co-producer of this unjudgmental film about the Asian culture of arranged marriage in the modern world...
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Cruella (12A) |Close-Up Film Review
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Cruella (12A) |Close-Up Film Review

Carol Allen Posted on 5 years ago 1
After months and months of watching movies cramped onto the screen of your “device”, big screen entertainment...
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The Legend of Barney Thomson (15) | Film Review
 The Legend of Barney Thomson
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The Legend of Barney Thomson (15) | Film Review

Carol Allen Posted on 10 years ago 0
Carlyle’s feature film debut as a director, in which he also takes the title role, is an...
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A Walk in the Woods (15) | Close-Up Film Review
 A Walk in the Woods
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A Walk in the Woods (15) | Close-Up Film Review

Carlie Newman Posted on 10 years ago 0
Robert Redford stars as travel writer Bill Bryson who, after 20 years, returns to the US &...
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