Thunderbolts* (12A) |Close-Up Film Review
Thunderbolts* is now sitting as film number 38 in the Marvel Cinematic Universe! The plot? Simple on paper, layered in execution.
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Florence Pugh
Thunderbolts* (12A) |Close-Up Film Review
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (PG) Close-Up Film Review
When Puss in Boots first appeared in one of the Shrek movies, a swashbuckling, scene and heart stealer with a wickedly mischievous face was born. Seductively and joyously voiced by Antonio Banderas, he was a Douglas Fairbanks among cats.
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Oppenheimer (15) |Close-Up Film Review
Christopher Nolan has given us a blockbuster that has real heart behind it. It is a superb production with an outstanding performance by Cillian Murphy as J Robert Oppenheimer, the ‘father of the atomic bomb.’
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We Live In Time (15) |Close-Up Film Review
When you remember the important moments of your life, you don’t recall them in the order in which they happened and neither does John Crowley’s film in its storytelling.
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Little Women (U) | Close-Up Film Review
A book which has changed the lives of many young girls, films made over the years with wonderful casts…how can you improve on this?
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Lady Macbeth (15) | Close-Up Film Review
Apart from her ruthlessness in the act of murder, the title character here bears little resemblance to Shakespeare’s character of that name. The film is based on a nineteenth century Russian novella called “Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District” by Nikolai Leskov and was also later adapted into the better known opera of the same title by Shostakovich.
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Don’t Worry Darling (15) |Close-Up Film Review
Olivia Wilde’s second film as director is similar in theme to Ira Levin’s twice filmed novel The Stepford Wives – the exploitation and objectification of women by men.
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‘Dune: Part Two’ Character Posters
The saga continues as award-winning filmmaker Denis Villeneuve embarks on “Dune: Part Two,” the next chapter of Frank Herbert’s celebrated novel Dune, with an expanded all-star international ensemble cast.
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New Trailer For Don’t Worry Darling
A 1950s housewife (Pugh) living with her husband (Styles) in a utopian experimental community begins to worry that his glamorous company may be hiding disturbing secrets.
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Don’t Worry Darling released 23rd September
Alice (Pugh) and Jack (Styles) are lucky to be living in the idealized community of Victory, the experimental company town housing the men who work for the top-secret Victory Project and their families.
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