Watch the new, action-packed special look at the Kingsman legacy
Watch the new, action-packed special look at the Kingsman legacy, which all began with the events that unfold in “The King’s Man,” opening in UK cinemas on December 22.
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My Zoe is set for release on October 5th in the UK.
Signature Entertainment has released a UK trailer for the upcoming sci-fi drama My Zoe.
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Mark Kermode Live in 3D at the BFI to move online
MARK KERMODE LIVE IN 3D AT THE BFI (MK3D) will be moving online so that film fans can continue to engage with the latest movie news and discussions.
Read moreThe Escape (15) | Close-Up Film Review
In some ways this film echoes the themes of “Shirley Valentine” in that it deals with a woman feeling trapped by domesticity who breaks out and finds herself. The treatment though is very different.
Read moreRunner Runner (15) | Close-Up Film Review
A brilliant Princeton math student attempts to set free his broke bank account by risking all in an online poker game. After he’s cheated of his last cent, he flies to Costa Rica to sort things out with the owner of that gambling website.
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100 Streets (15) | Close-Up Film Review
This is a promising idea which takes three stories set in different social milieus inside the same area of London, which are almost a representative demographic – the very rich, the “hardworking ordinary working family” and the underprivileged.
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The Girl with All the Gifts (15) | Close-Up Film Review
Like the 2006 film “The Children of Men”, this “dystopian future” film features a world where the future of humanity is in the hands of one young girl. Only in this case she is a flesh eating zombie.
Read moreGemma Bovery (15) | Close-Up Film Review
This is the second time that Arterton has taken the title role in the film of a Posy Simmonds novel, with the character she is playing this time being rather more appealing than the somewhat annoying Tamara Drewe.
Gemma Bovery is set in Normandy and shot in France by director Anne Fontaine, who also made the charming Coco before Chanel with Audrey Tatou, and it is an effective combination of Gallic charm and English savoir faire.
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The Voices (15) | Home Ents Review
Marjane Satrapi, perhaps best known for her Oscar-nominated animation Persepolis, brings a stirring sense of duality to this quirky, off-tone
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The Voices (15) Close-Up Film Review
In a contemporary film culture where young writers are advised to ensure their story fits into one of the accepted
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