Dead Ringers centers around twins Beverly and Elliot Mantle, both played by Rachel Weisz, which instantly has me trying to spot the split-screen in any sort of programme or film, or moments where they could …
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On A Wing And A Prayer – The DVDfever Review – Amazon Prime Video – Dennis Quaid
On A Wing And A Prayer is based on real events from Easter Sunday 2009, where 56-year-old pilot Doug White (68-year-old Dennis Quaid – Midway) almost crashes his plane, while not far from the airstrip. …
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The Power – The DVDfever Review – Amazon Prime Video – Toni Collette
The Power is a new 9-part series on Prime Video, where a streaming service tells us it’s time, again, another Young Adult novel brought to the small screen. The essence is that, for reasons unexplained, …
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Swarm – The DVDfever Review – Amazon Prime Video – Dominique Fishback, Donald Glover
Swarm begins with the text: “This is not a work of fiction. Any similarity to real people and events is intentional.” I figured this was for comedic value – given that it is co-created by …
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Class Of 07 – The DVDfever Review – Amazon Prime Video – Emily Browning, Caitlin Stasey
Class Of 07 is about a high school reunion, as you’d expect, but everyone has their different backgrounds as to what they’ve been up to, and for Zoe (Emily Browning), she inadvertently showed herself up …
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Daisy Jones and The Six – The DVDfever Review – Amazon Prime – Riley Keough
Daisy Jones And The Six tells the story of the titular rock band from their rise in the 1970s, and to see where they are, later in life. It begins with the text: “On October …
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Die Hart: The Movie – The DVDfever Review – Amazon Prime Video – Kevin Hart
Die Hart: The Movie sees Kevin Hart playing a fictionalised version of himself, and while I don’t *get* his comedy, I really enjoyed his 2021 drama, True Story, with Wesley Snipes. So, again, there are …
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The Consultant – The DVDfever Review – Amazon Prime Video – Christoph Waltz
The Consultant is the new job for Christoph Waltz (Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio), as… yes, a consultant, called Regus Patoff. In this company, games coders code titles for mobile phone entertainment, but then if they …
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The Rig – The DVDfever Review – Prime Video – Martin Compston
The Rig is a new Prime Video series, and I don’t know much much water seems to ‘fart’ as gas escapes to the surface, but that happens in the opening of this six-parter. It’s a …
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The Peripheral – The DVDfever Review – Amazon Prime Video – Chloë Grace Moretz
The Peripheral is set in the year 2099, so no doubt, everyone’s expecting a new bug to kick in on their machines next year… that said, I only have a problem with ONE program in …
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