Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2022 begins with a brief summary of the original film, since this one follows on from that, almost 50 years later, completely ignoring any other sequels or remakes (not that I’ve seen …
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The House – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Helena Bonham Carter
The House is billed as a dark, animated comedy, and is told in three chapters, but note that each chapter has different directors as well as a different style of animation, the first part featuring …
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Don’t Look Up – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Jennifer Lawrence
Don’t Look Up begins with young astronomer Kate Dibiasky (Jennifer Lawrence – mother!) discovering a new comet, along with the fact that and it hasn’t been closer to the sun since before human civilisation began. …
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The Unforgivable – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Sandra Bullock
The Unforgivable centres around Ruth Slater (Sandra Bullock – Bird Box), who’s just been released from jail after 20 years due to killing a cop, albeit in extreme circumstances. Her father had just committed suicide, …
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The Power of the Dog – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Benedict Cumberbatch
The Power of the Dog is a Western set in Montana, 1925, where the unnecessarily nasty Phil Burbank (Benedict Cumberbatch) constantly refers to his complacent brother, George (Jesse Plemons – The Irishman), as “fatso”. Plus, …
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Red Notice – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Dwayne Johnson, Ryan Reynolds, Gal Gadot
Red Notice has a triple-threat match of bankable box office names – Dwayne Johnson, Ryan Reynolds and Gal Gadot – backed up by director Rawson Marshall Thurber, who the former has worked with in both …
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Father Christmas Is Back – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Elizabeth Hurley
Father Christmas Is Back is a Christmas film where the family’s surname is Christmas. Sisters Paulina (Naomi Frederick), Joanna (Elizabeth Hurley), Caroline (Nathalie Cox) and Vicky (Talulah Riley) are at each other’s throats. Can they …
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Army Of Thieves – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Matthias Schweighöfer
Army Of Thieves centres around hobbyist safecracker Dieter (Matthias Schweighöfer – who also directed this), and serves as a prequel to Zack Snyder’s Army of the Dead, a great, fun zombie movie, so I was …
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No One Gets Out Alive – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Cristina Rodlo
No One Gets Out Alive begins with archive footage in Mexico, 1963, where a mysterious box is found… Fast-forward to the present day, and a young woman is staying in a poorly-maintained, enormous house overseen …
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The Starling – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Melissa McCarthy
The Starling centres around Lilly Maynard (Melissa McCarthy – Nine Perfect Strangers) and husband, Jack (Chris O’Dowd), who welcome baby Katie into their life. After the opening credits, however, we see Jack is in a …
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