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Tomb Raider 2018 is Lara Croft reborn in the guise of the 2013 reboot game, of which I was not a big fan, unlike the 1996 original and a number of its sequels. I seemed …
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Category: Cinema films
Lady Bird – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Lady Bird is another film selected for potential BAFTA and Oscar glory, yet is also another film that’s less than the sum of its parts, which is a shame, as Saoirse Ronan is superb in …
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The Shape Of Water – The DVDfever Cinema Review
The Shape Of Water centres around a weird water-dwelling creature which, on first encounter, almost thuds through the container it’s within, giving every unspecting Tom, Dick or Harriet a fright. Elisa Esposito (Sally Hawkins) and …
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Lies We Tell – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Gabriel Byrne
Lies We Tell starts off really well, even though I wasn’t aiming for poetry in my first line. Gabriel Byrne takes the lead as Donald, the driver to rich old man Demi (Harvey Keitel), who …
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The Post – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Pentagon Papers Pish
The Post centres around US newspaper The Washington Post, and revealing deep government secrets about the Vietnam War, courtesy of military analyst Daniel Ellsberg (Matthew Rhys) who’s travelled to the country in question, in 1966, …
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Darkest Hour – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Good Gary. Film Failure
Darkest Hour gives Gary Oldman a turn as Prime Minister Winston Churchill, after Brian Cox’s Churchill last year, but with Oldman as the man at the time of the Dunkirk evacuations, so incredibly portrayed last …
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Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, is what Mildred (Frances McDormand) hires out when she spots them, early on, and wants to put something out there relating to the death of her daughter, but she asks …
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Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars – The DVDfever Review
Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars is the documentary about the singer/songwriter who was once, rightly, called God. The film takes in his early influences – which were mostly blues music (although precious few of …
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Ingrid Goes West – The DVDfever Review
Ingrid Goes West portrays Aubrey Plaza in the titular lead, distinctly sick and tired of individuals who live their life through Instragram and other social media playforms, and expressing her displeasure at not being invited …
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Flatliners (2017) – The DVDfever Review
Flatliners is one of my all-time favourite films. The 1990 original, that is. Joel Schumacher’s vision was amazing, and the widescreen visuals were killed on pan-and-scan VHS tape, so it’s no surprise that when I …
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