Loro (18) | Close-Up Film Review
Most of us only know Silvio Berlusconi through reading newspapers and on-line. Here we have Toni Servillo as Berlusconi presenting a self-centered pre-Trump figure of ambition for and love of power.
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Lizzie (15) | Home Ents Review
Many of you may already be familiar with the story of Lizzie Borden through previous movies, televised ghost hunts of the Borden house or just having heard the tale been told throughout different outlets including the rhyme “Lizzie Borden took an axe, and gave her mother forty whacks.
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Toni Erdmann (15) | Close-Up Film Review
This comedy from German writer/director Maren Ade has been both highly praised by many critics when seen at festivals and nominated for a plethora of awards including a BAFTA and an Oscar. And it has won some of them.
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Kubo and the Two Strings (PG) | Home Ents Review
A magical shamisen (a ‘three-stringed’ Japanese banjo-type instrument) enables a young Kubo to animate swirls of paper into origami and illustrate tales of legendary samurai.
Read moreRichard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny (15) | Close-Up Film Review
One of the joys of a biopic is to tell a story of unearthly triumph over adversity; overcoming or succumbing to drug addictions, deaths in the family and difficult backgrounds are often all shown in their most extreme forms.
Read moreThe Light Between Oceans (12A) | Close-Up Film Review
Tom (Fassbender), an emotionally battered survivor of the First World War, takes a job as keeper of the lighthouse off the coast of this isolated area. On a trip to the mainland he meets Isabel (Vikander), who draws him out of his emotional isolation and they fall in love and get married.
Read moreThe Ninth Life of Louis Drax (15) | Close-Up Film Review
Based on the novel by British writer Liz Jensen, this psychological thriller has an interesting premise and a good cast. Much of it happens inside the head of the eponymous Louis (Longworth), a nine year old boy with a remarkable, accident prone history.
Read moreDissent & Disruption: Alan Clarke at the BBC (18) | Home Ents Review
The chances are that you cannot name a single director of tv dramas from what are often called the golden years of British tv. If you can, the name on your lips is probaby Alan Clarke – whose astonishing body of work from 20 years at the BBC has now been released in two formats: a sumptuous 13 disc Blu-ray box set and two 6 discs DVD sets.
Read moreCSI: The Finale (15) | Home Ents Review
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation was first aired on our television screens back in 2000 and went on for fifteen years, concluding last year after fifteen successful seasons and creating three spin off TV shows (CSI: Miami, CSI: New York, CSI: Cyber). There is no better way to say goodbye to the cast than a feature length episode that brings back a host of familiar faces and puts a full stop at the end of the CSI story once and for all.
Read moreThe Man Who Knew Infinity (12A) | Close-Up Film Review
The film introduces us to Srinivasa Ramanujan, an important figure in the history of mathematics, who may well be famous in India but is probably unknown to most members of the general public in the Western world.
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