The 355 – Coming Soon
A dream team of formidable female stars come together in a hard-driving original approach to the globe-trotting espionage genre in The 355.
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Miss Sloane (15) | Close-Up Film Review
It is interesting to speculate as to why British director John Madden (“Shakespeare in Love”,” Marigold Hotel” etc) would choose the totally different and sometimes impenetrable world of the American political jungle as the setting for his latest film.
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Crimson Peak (15) | Close-Up Film Review
Guillermo Del Toro is back in his wheelhouse and so clearly relishing every moment of it. Crimson Peak is vintage Del Toro, as he pushes his gothic proclivities into overdrive on the amazing set that is Allerdale Hall. Set in the late 19th Century
Read moreThe Martian (12A) | Close-Up Film Review
Ridley Scott is back, and has this time turned his head to a less fantastical sort of sci-fi. The Martian, very faithfully based on the bestseller by Andy Weir, is extremely grounded in a plausible not-so-distant-future where manned missions to Mars are not only possible, but in their third iteration.
Read moreUnity (15) | Close-Up Film Review
Written, directed and produced by Monson, Unity is a sequel of sorts to his 2005 film Earthlings. In part Unity can be regarded as political. In part social. Unity makes significant commentary on the lack of unity within the human race despite our technological, social and political improvements. Humankind is yet to become a peaceful race. Still we kill and oppress one another, using animals and nature purely for our own gain.
Read moreA Most Violent Year (15) | Home Ents Review
Set in New York City in 1981, Oscar Isaac plays Abel Morales, the owner of Standard Oil, a heating oil
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