Snoopy and Charlie Brown: The Peanuts Movie (U) | Close-Up Film Review
The fact that this has had a territorial title change in its journey across the pond, speaks volumes about Charlie Brown and the gang’s appeal outside of America.
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Year: 2015
SHERPA (15) |Close-Up Film Review
Nepal and exploitative capitalism aren’t two things you usually find in the same sentence. Nepal, with its beautiful mountains, smiling, friendly people and association with peace and selflessness drawn from Buddhist and Hindu spirituality, is the site of this divisive documentary by the people that between them brought us Miracle on Everest, Touching The Void and 127 Hours.
Read MoreTom & Viv and Wilde (both 15) | Home Ents Review
Tortured artists take centre stage in Brian Gilbert’s double-header from 1994 and 1997 respectively. The period dramas take a closer look at two of Britain’s greatest literary figures
Read MoreGrandma (15) | Close-Up Film Review
Lily Tomlin quests like a 21st Century Odysseus as she attempts to scrape together $630 with her granddaughter to fund an abortion. They are both broke and the trip around town to visit figures from Tomlin’s past create the backbone of this complex but neatly packaged road trip movie. It’s a journey of feminist discovery (both for the academically-versed grandmother and her uninitiated granddaughter), inter-generational bonding, humour and liberation.
Read MoreDressed As a Girl (18) | Home Ents Review
Sometimes outrageous behaviour but always fascinating, this documentary shows the on-stage and off stage activities of a group of friends who are all drag queens.
Read MoreHector (15) | Close-Up Film Review
Mullan plays Hector, a homeless man in Glasgow, who lives on the motorways, keeping himself fed and clean via the motorway cafes and their toilets. He is embarking on his annual pilgrimage to London where a seasonal welcome awaits him at the homeless shelter
Read MoreWith The Release Of Grandma, We Look Back At The Career Of Lily Tomlin
Lily Tomlin is an American actor, comedian, singer, and producer who has graced audiences worldwide with laughter and amusement for a good few decades.
Read MoreInterview: Armie Hammer & Henry Cavill
THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. Is Available On Digital HD, BLU-RAY And DVD ON 7TH December 2015
Read MoreInterview: The Cast & Crew Of The Gift
“The Gift started for me with a simple premise: what would happen if a high school bully ran into his victim fifteen or so years later? What would or could be the effects? How might the past come to bear on the present? How could the past, unaccounted and unresolved, rupture a present situation?
Read MoreThe Gift (15) |Home Ents Review
Joel Edgerton literally does it all in this anxiety-inducing thriller. It’s somewhat of a concept piece, with the conceit whereby a figure from the past re-emerges in order to make one reassess the status of your present state. At 108 minutes it never outstays it’s welcome and will leave many wishing there was more to follow in the form a finite resolution. It ends in delicious, if horrific ambiguity.
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