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London Korean Film Festival 2021 Review by Helen M Jerome: To paraphrase Samuel Johnson, if you’re tired of Korean film, you’re tired of life… such is its breadth and quality. Positioned in its own sweet …
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Dune Part One in 1.43:1 IMAX – The DVDfever Review – Zendaya, Timothée Chalamet
Dune Part One begins with the declaration, “Dreams are messages from the deep”. And this was originally just entitled ‘Dune‘, like the novel, but on the Tuesday after its released, Warner Bros confirmed that this …
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London Korean Film Festival 2021 Preview by Helen M Jerome
London Korean Film Festival 2021 Preview: How time flies! It’s that time again, for the highly-anticipated London Korean Film Festival, and incredibly the 16th year it’s been going. In that time it’s evolved from a …
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Halloween Kills (and Halloween 2018) – The DVDfever Review – Jamie Lee Curtis
Halloween Kills follows on from Halloween (2018), which I only got round to watching about two days before this sequel, but Michael Myers’ return – seemingly, lazily ignoring every sequel since (given that Myers has …
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Malignant – The DVDfever Review – Annabelle Wallis, James Wan
Malignant begins in 1993, where we learn Gabriel is some weird entity who kills without remorse and can broadcast his thoughts, following the recorded thoughts of Dr Florence Weaver (good to see Jacqueline McKenzie onscreen, …
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Reminiscence – The DVDfever Review – Hugh Jackman, Rebecca Ferguson
Reminiscence begins with some early so-called “man-made global warming” scaremongering by making Miami look flooded, and everyone’s nocturnal to “escape the heat of the sun”. Meanwhile, everyone’s happy to walk through deep – and easily-avoided …
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The Courier – The DVDfever Review – Benedict Cumberbatch
The Courier begins on August 12th, 1960, a time for Nikita Khrushchev, and following a timeline which leads into and past the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. Col. Oleg Vladimirovich Penkovsky (Merab Ninidze), aka Codename: Ironbark, …
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The Suicide Squad – The DVDfever Review – Margot Robbie, Idris Elba
The Suicide Squad finally comes to cinemas and HBO Max, and under the writer/directorship of James Gunn (Guardians Of The Galaxy 2), even after some very questionable tweets from 2008/09 came to light in 2018. …
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Fast and Furious 9 – The DVDfever Review – Vin Diesel, John Cena
Fast and Furious 9‘s plot can be summed up in one sentence. Struggling to think of a reason to make another Fast and Furious film, the scriptwriters cobble together some crap about Dominic Toretto (Vin …
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The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Ryan Reynolds
The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard comes to cinemas just as everything is confirmed as staying under lock and key for another few weeks. I was disappointed with the first film because while it had an outstanding …
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