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The Suicide Squad

June 23, 2021June 23, 2021 News Editor Idris Elba, Margot Robbie, Peter Capaldi, The Suicide Squad

From writer/director James Gunn comes Warner Bros. Pictures’ superhero action adventure “The Suicide Squad,” featuring a collection of the most degenerate delinquents in the DC lineup.

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The Suicide Squad trailer is finally here

March 28, 2021March 28, 2021 News Editor Idris Elba, John Cena, Margot Robbie, Pete Davidson, The Suicide Squad, Viola Davis

The Suicide Squad is one of the most highly-anticipated movies of 2021 and the first trailer is finally here to show the carnage in store.

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100 Streets (15) | Close-Up Film Review

November 11, 2016 Carol Allen 100 Streets, Charlie Creed-Miles, Franz Drameh, Gemma Arterton, Idris Elba, Ken Stott, Kierston Wareing, Tom Cullen

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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Bastille Day (15) | Close-Up Film Review

April 22, 2016 George Meixner Bastille Day, Idris Elba, Kelly Reilly, Richard Maddon

“It’s all about the distraction” says petty thief Michael Mason (Madden) when explaining his sparkling technique in an interrogation from CIA badass Brier (Elba).

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Zootropolis (PG) | Close-Up Film Review

March 25, 2016 Matthew Rodgers Ginnifer Goodwin, Idris Elba, J.K. Simmons, Jason Bateman, Review, The Walt Disney Company, Zootropolis

Zootropolis quickly evolves into something completely unexpected; a noir mystery adventure, featuring well-drawn central characters, and a plot with more subtext and resonant, responsible themes than most films you’re likely to see in 2016.

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Beasts of No Nation (15) | Close-Up FIlm Review

October 25, 2015 Rayvenn Shaleigha D’Clark Abraham Attah, Beasts of No Nation, Cary Joji Fukunaga, Idris Elba, Kurt Egyiawan, Netflix, Opeyemi Fagbohungbe, Richard Pepple

The Netflix wonderchild that is Beasts of No Nation is a first of its kind. Directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga, the creator of HBO’s hit TV Series True Detective, Beasts of No Nation is the first in an (expected) long line of films to be released as part of Netflix’s original movie division (which in itself took over a year to develop and to acquire rights to films that could put the streaming service in the Oscar frontline).

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