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The Critic is a film I was drawn to, because Ian McKellen (Last Action Hero – yes, seriously!) – in the lead role as The Chronicle’s drama theatre critic Jimmy Erskine – is a national …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of THE SUBSTANCE!
The Substance centres around the premise of wishing you were younger than you are, because in the eyes of the media, high-profile female stars are on the wane once their age goes North of 50. …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of SPEAK NO EVIL (2024)
Speak No Evil looks at the problem of meeting ‘that couple’ when you’re away on holiday. For Louise (Mackenzie Davis – Terminator: Dark Fate) and Ben Dalton (Scoot McNairy – Killing Them Softly), while away …
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Beetlejuice Beetlejuice – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice comes to cinemas a whole 36 years after the original Beetlejuice was released, and it had been a long time since I’d seen that, so gave it a viewing the night before going …
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Touch – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Egill Ólafsson, Kôki
Touch begins in March 2020, just as COVID19 is surrounding world, and the lockdowns are on the verge of beginning in the UK, with our lead, Kristófer (Egill Ólafsson), travelling to London because in his …
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Cuckoo – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Hunter Schafer, Dan Stevens
Cuckoo is a bizarre horror movie, opening with a young woman running out into the forest after having to leave her house, because her parents are arguing, and she’s very sensitive to sound. The story …
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Kneecap – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Michael Fassbender
Kneecap centres around the titular Irish rap group, but introduces us to Ireland with the era of the early ’80s – a time I lived through as a young boy, where the IRA ran rife …
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Coraline 3D Remastered 15th Anniversary – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Dakota Fanning
Coraline has been re-released in a remastered 3D print for its 15th anniversary, and still have the 3D trilogy boxset for this, Paranorman and The Boxtrolls, from when that was first released, although I hadn’t …
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AfrAId – The DVDfever Cinema Review – John Cho, Katherine Waterston
AfrAId opens with an Artificial Intelligence program being used by a young girl, Ava, who’s far too engaged with her on her tablet, much to her parents’ total ignorance, not realising how controlling it can …
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Between The Temples – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Jason Schwartzman
Between The Temples is one of those films where I knew very little about it before watching it, but with 20 screens at my local Odeon, there’s often a bit of space for indie films, …
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