'CSI' to close its last case in September

15 May 2015 - 02:22 By Tymon Smith

After 15 years, one of the world's most watched television shows is coming to an end in September. Yes, much to the relief of forensic science departments everywhere, US network CBS has announced that CSI (the original one) will end on September 27 with a two-hour feature movie episode that will bring back William Petersen to play the role of Dr Gil Grissom one last time.There's a film from the Ukraine that's getting a lot of attention at the moment. Tribe, directed by Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy, is a tale of sex, drugs and violence that takes place in a school for the deaf. There's no dialogue and everything is communicated through sign language but that hasn't stopped critics from heaping praise on the film at festivals everywhere.Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at this year's Sundance Film Festival, Wolfpack is a strange and intriguing documentary about a group of New York brothers who grew up locked in an apartment by their parents. With nowhere to go the brothers developed a love of movies and the film tells the story of their attempts to remake some of their favourite films using only what they could find in the apartment. You can watch the trailer on YouTube.Also openingA little chaosThoughtful costume-fest and some amusing lessons in court behaviour, structural engineering and landscape gardening with Kate Winslet and Alan Rickman.Brigit Grant, express.co.ukPitch PerfectStraight out of Glee with little interest in moralising or political correctness. Instead, it has Mean Girls' catty wit and shrewdly observed characters.Olly Richards, empireonline.comYou're not youHilary Swank's portrayal of a gifted concert pianist with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is so intensely persuasive that once you're engaged by her wrenching ordeal, you mostly forgive the movie's emotional manipulation.Stephen Holden, nytimes.com..

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