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Rebecca is a new version of the 1940s Hitchcock movie (okay, technically, the 1938 Daphne du Maurier novel), and I wouldn’t have thought of Ben Wheatley as someone making a remake of such a film, …
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Category: Cinema films
Blackpink: Light Up The Sky – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Blackpink
Blackpink: Light Up The Sky: I’m not too au fait with K-pop music, but I’ve heard of Blackpink, one of many manufactured pop groups in South Korea, but also one of the most successful. After …
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I Am Greta – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Greta Thunberg
I Am Greta… Greta Thunberg, the young Swedish girl who probably started off with good intentions when bunking off school in Stockholm, on a Friday for a ‘school strike for climate’. I know if I …
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London Film Festival 2020 Preview – Different look for different times
London Film Festival 2020 Preview: Your easy-to-follow guide to this year’s BFI 64th festival, running from October 7th-18th, by Helen M Jerome Most years I write with equal parts excitement and frustration about the delights …
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i’m thinking of ending things – The DVDfever Review – Charlie Kaufman – Netflix
i’m thinking of ending things is what’s going through the mind of the young woman – referred to as such in the credits, albeit named both Lucy and Louisa during the film – played by …
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Tenet in 70mm IMAX – The DVDfever Review – Christopher Nolan
Tenet is a film that’s weird to review because, before seeing it, I didn’t quite get what was going on, and then after seeing it, I’m still trying to process it; and I think a …
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Bill And Ted Face The Music – The DVDfever Review – Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter
Bill And Ted Face the Music is – I figured before I watched it – certainly a film that’s a curiosity, but a lot has been riding on it because it’s been 29 years since …
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The Tax Collector – The DVDfever Review – Shia LeBeouf
The Tax Collector starts with something particularly gross, not from what you might normally expect in a film where firearms are going to play a part, but when David Cuevas (Bobby Soto) wakes up, his …
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Go Back To China – The DVDfever Review – Emily Ting, Anna Akana
Go Back To China centres around Sasha Li (singer/actress/Youtube/all-rounder Anna Akana, above-centre), who’s looking for a job in fashion design, yet is struggling because she can’t get any experience, and no experience means she can’t …
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Escape from Pretoria – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Daniel Radcliffe
Escape from Pretoria is the South African Prison Break! Set in 1979, the film begins with freedom fighters/terrorists (take your pick) Tim Jenkin (Daniel Radcliffe – Horns, Imperium) and Stephen Lee (Daniel Webber, above-right with …
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