Dan Woburn, Author at close-upfilm

What sounded like a heck of an offering from Ricky Gervais when it was announced way back in October of 2014 has unfortunately transpired to be a shallow effort from Gervais

Reviews

April 2, 2016 Dan Woburn

Victoria (15) | Close-Up Film Review

The UK premiere of Victoria was, quite fittingly, held at a nightclub – albeit at the reasonable mid-week time of 8pm.

Reviews

December 31, 2015June 18, 2022 Dan Woburn

Sleeping With Other People (15) | Close-Up Film Review

Director Leslye Headland, whose last effort Bachelorette played out like a highly cynical version of Bridesmaids, is back with her own 21st Century version of When Harry Met Sally. Sleeping With Other People bears a lot of similarities to Rob Reiner’s late 80s classic romcom, and it’s not a bad thing.

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November 16, 2015 Dan Woburn

Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse (15) | Close-Up Film Review

The very simple premise of this horror comedy is also the name on the tin. Childhood friends Ben (Sheridan), Carter (Miller) and Augie (Morgan) are boy scouts who become embroiled in a zombie apocalypse upon returning to civilisation from a campout with their sad-act Scout Leader Rogers (David Koechner, having a lot of fun). There’s more to the plot than this, including classic teen movie vibes involving Ben and Carter wanting to ditch Scouts

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October 15, 2015June 19, 2022 Dan Woburn

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

DVD/Blu Ray

October 10, 2015June 18, 2022 Dan Woburn

Parks and Recreation: The Complete Series (15) | Home Ents Review

Parks and Recreation, or Parks & Rec as it’s lovingly known by both its hardcore fanbase and those who would prefer to save literally, one second, is one of the greatest sitcoms to grace television screens in the last twenty years, easy. Documented not by how it bulldozed audience viewing figures, or netted its stars one mil per episode (ahem, Friends), but by its consistent resilience not only by being “on the bubble” for six seasons – wherein a show doesn’t really warrant renewing, due to dwindling audience figures, yet US television network NBC believed in it anyway – but by permeating itself in the zeitgeist where you least expected it to.

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September 30, 2015 Dan Woburn

The 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.