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being frank: the chris sievey story is the film for which i’ve been waiting several years to be made… that’s because i was a huge fan of frank sidebottom, the bizarre and incredible creation of …
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Leaving Neverland – The DVDfever Review – Michael Jackson documentary
Leaving Neverland, aka Leaving Neverland: Michael Jackson and Me tells us what we’ve all known for years: Michael Jackson sexually-abused children. Or do you think he’s innocent, and that he was the victim in all …
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Two For Joy – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Daniel Mays
Two For Joy begins with the last day of school for Vi (Emilia Jones, daughter of Aled Jones and she was brilliant opposite Guy Pearce in Brimstone), but life is far from easy for her. …
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Alita: Battle Angel in IMAX 3D – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Alita: Battle Angel, originally was a manga known as Battle Angel Alita*. Quite why they’ve gone with this change, I don’t know and it’s never been explained, so I can only guess that it’s when …
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Green Book – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Viggo Mortensen, Mahershala Ali
Green Book looked from the trailer like a colour-swap version of Driving Miss Daisy, as working-class Italian-American bouncer Tony Vallelonga – aka Tony Lip (Viggo Mortensen) – becomes the driver for African-American classical pianist Don …
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Can You Ever Forgive Me? – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Melissa McCarthy in *good film* shocker?
Can You Ever Forgive Me? marked a rare departure for me – a return to actually WANTING to watch a Melissa McCarthy movie after the godawful 2016 Ghostbusters reboot, but that’s because this is (a) …
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Vice – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Christian Bale
Vice opens on Sept 11th, 2001, as Dick Cheney (Christian Bale, above) is rushed into the Presidential Emergency Operations Centre, so he’s kept out of harm’s way, and then goes back to the start, in …
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The 12th Man – The DVDfever Review – Jonathan Rhys Meyers
The 12th Man takes place in 1943 during World War II, at a time when Hitler had established “Festung Norwegen” (Fortress Norway), aka building heavy defences and fortification as they occupied Norway, thus Operation Martin …
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Bros: After The Screaming Stops – The DVDfever Review
Bros: After The Screaming Stops brings the twin brothers back together to perform at the O2 in Wembley, 28 years after they first performed at Wembley. But that’s nothing! I was at one of their …
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BFI 62nd London Film Festival Part 2 Review by Helen M Jerome
BFI 62nd London Film Festival Part 2: Having delivered our verdict on the biggest, splashiest releases from the 2018 London Film Festival in Part 1 of our annual round-up, in Part 2 we now turn …
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