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Mortal Kombat 2021… Punch. Kick. Punch. Kick. Punch. Kick. Good guy kills bad guy. Bad guy kills good guy. There’s a sulky teenager. There’s a fatality with a heart being ripped out. There’s a macho …
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Category: Cinema films
BFI Flare Festival 2021 – The DVDfever Review by Helen M Jerome
BFI Flare Festival 2021 by Helen M Jerome: I’ve attended the main BFI London Film Festival in person – and virtually – for a couple of decades, but this is the very first time I’ve …
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Godzilla Vs Kong – The DVDfever Review – Millie Bobby Brown
Godzilla Vs Kong is the fourth film in this series following the awful, rebooted 2014 Godzilla movie, 2017’s reasonable Kong: Skull Island, and 2019’s meh Godzilla: King of the Monsters. On the plus side, at …
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Tom and Jerry: The Movie – The DVDfever Review – Chloë Grace Moretz
Tom and Jerry: The Movie: I grew up with a big love for this cat-and-mouse pairing in cartoons back in the ’80s, some of which were even originally made in 2.55:1 Cinemascope, but badly cropped …
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Judas and the Black Messiah – The DVDfever Review – Daniel Kaluuya, LaKeith Stanfield
Judas and the Black Messiah begins in Chicago, 1968, with criminal Bill O’Neal (LaKeith Stanfield – Uncut Gems, Death Note) pretending to work for the FBI so he can walk into a bar and arrest …
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The Father – The DVDfever Review – Anthony Hopkins, Olivia Colman
The Father centres around Anthony Hopkins who plays Anthony, a man in his advancing years who still feels he can live in his flat unaided, yet is in a constant state of denial that he …
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Music – The DVDfever Review – Sia’s directorial movie debut
Music, the feature-length directorial debut from musician Sia, is one which has had complaints about the fact that the the titular lead character is on the autistic spectrum, but the actress – and long-time Sia …
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To Olivia – The DVDfever Review – Hugh Bonneville, Keeley Hawes
To Olivia is promoted as “The true story of Roald Dahl and Patricia Neal“, yet only covers a couple of years in their life, so won’t be the whole story. It begins in 1962, with …
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Goteborg Film Festival 2021 – The DVDfever Review by Helen M Jerome
Goteborg Film Festival 2021: Helen M Jerome ‘visits’ Goteborg Film Festival 2021 and is so impressed, she’s hoping to go in person next year… Obviously I was thrilled to attend Goteborg Film Festival for the …
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The Little Things – The DVDfever Review – Denzel Washington, Rami Malek
The Little Things centres around the old trope of two mismatched cops, who must work together to solve a case, and along the way, they’ll find similarities which they never expected, but it’s nothing that …
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