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BFI Flare Festival 2024 by Helen M Jerome: It feels like the annual BFI Flare Festival is growing into something loud, proud and significant. Boasting features, documentaries and shorts for every taste, it also embraces …
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Category: Cinema films
The Persian Version – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Layla Mohammadi
The Persian Version largely centres around rebellious young woman Leila (Layla Mohammadi – Special Ops: Lioness), who wears a burkini to a Halloween party, so you can see a ton of skin below the waist, …
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Late Night With The Devil – The DVDfever Cinema Review – David Dastmalchian
Late Night With The Devil sets out a 1977 Halloween special for the talk show hosted by faltering Jack Delroy (David Dastmalchian – Dune Part One), who was hot stuff when he signed with the …
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Immaculate – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Sydney Sweeney
Immaculate sees Sister Cecilia (Sydney Sweeney – Madame Web) rocking up at a new convent to start her term of endurance, this coming after an initial scene that will rather point out why she’s making …
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Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Paul Rudd
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire proves that no matter how much you flog a dead horse, the more it’ll continue to get up. It’s probably a ghost at this point… Anyhoo, this fifth film that bears the …
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The Lyricist Wannabe – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Suet-Ying Chung
The Lyricist Wannabe is a new Cantonese Chinese film which centres around Law Wing Sze (Suet-Ying Chung, above-right) with the titular dilemma in a film which takes place over six years, from 2006 onwards – …
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The New Boy – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Cate Blanchett
The New Boy doesn’t specify the period in which it’s set, but over time, it becomes clear it’s around 1940, with the World War II references. It’s also a time when those in the Australian …
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Fight Club 25th Anniversary – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Brad Pitt
Fight Club is 25 years old in 2024, and I went to see it, but, I’m sorry, I can’t talk about it. Fight Club is in cinemas now, and is available on Blu-ray and DVD. …
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Drive-Away Dolls – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Margaret Qualley, Geraldine Viswanathan
Drive-Away Dolls sounds like the title of a Thelma And Louise-style movie, but it’s not quite that. First-up – and this must be an American term as I haven’t come across it, “Drive-away” means to …
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COPA 71 – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Football documentary
COPA 71 is a new documentary about the 1971 Women’s World Cup, and you may ask yourself, as I haven’t watched football since I was a kid, and thus have zero interest in the modern …
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