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Pieces of a Woman takes place over a period of a number of months, starting on September 17th, where mum-to-be Martha (Vanessa Kirby – Mission Impossible: Fallout) buys a new, spacious car with husband Sean …
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We Can Be Heroes – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Pedro Pascal, Priyanka Chopra
We Can Be Heroes follows on from 2005’s writer/director Robert Rodriguez‘s The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl 3D, which I haven’t seen, but should because I like 3D films. I get the impression that whereas …
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The Midnight Sky – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – George Clooney, Felicity Jones
The Midnight Sky begins observing Augustine (George Clooney – Return of the Killer Tomatoes… yes, seriously!), at the Barbeau Observatory in The Arctic Circle, where we see him sat down, eating lunch on his own …
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Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Chadwick Boseman
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom refers to a particular song, rather than a part of her anatomy, and after a brief early scene, seeing Ma Rainey (Viola Davis – Suicide Squad) play in a couple of …
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Mank – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Gary Oldman
Mank…Herman J Mankiewicz, played by Gary Oldman, is a man whose scriptwriting work often went uncredited, but back in 1940, at the age of just 24, Orson Welles was given a contract by then-struggling RKO …
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The Christmas Chroncicles 2 – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Kurt Russell
The Christmas Chronicles 2 comes two years after the first movie, and when I read about the premise of how Kate Pierce (Darby Camp) is now a cynical teen and needs to team up with …
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Hillbilly Elegy – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Amy Adams, Glenn Close
Hillbilly Elegy: When I first saw the trailer for this, it looked a bit dull… but then everyone was raving about it online, so I figured I’d give it a chance. As I watch the …
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The Life Ahead – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Sophia Loren
The Life Ahead centres around two people: Madame Rosa (Sophia Loren) – a former ‘lady of the night’, who’s long into her retirement, and who looks after children who are either orphaned or not with …
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Rogue City – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Jean Reno
Rogue City (aka Bronx) begins with a blank screen as we hear the audio of a man killing two people in a house while the credits roll. Soon after, as vision is presented to us, …
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His House – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Matt Smith
His House centres around Bol Majur (Sope Dirisu – Black Mirror: Nosedive) and his wife, Rial (Wunmi Mosaku – Temple), who come to the UK after escaping South Sudan in a boat which collapses in …
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