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Sully is the one where the studio had to add “Miracle on the Hudson” to the UK title because most people outside of the US wouldn’t remember the nickname of pilot Chesley ‘Sully’ Sullenberger (played …
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Category: Cinema films
BFI 60th London Film Festival Part 2 by Helen M Jerome
BFI 60th London Film Festival Part 2: It’s high time we looked further afield, into Europe and beyond, to see what they’re up to in their movies. Some of them may not have the massive …
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Bad Santa 2 – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Bad Santa 2 comes 13 years after the first Bad Santa, although technically for the UK, it’s 12, since it didn’t get a release until November 2004. Even still, it took until November 2016 for …
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Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them – Fantastic Fun! – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them is the first in a new five-movie series set in JK Rowling‘s Harry Potter universe, a franchise I never got round to seeing, although I’ve always intended to …
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Dog Eat Dog – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Dog Eat Dog centres on three ex-cons, who’ve spent a great deal of their life in prison, resulting in them each having two strikes, meaning a third arrest will send them down for life with …
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Arrival – A big-screen-must – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Arrival: In a word… Weeeeeeeeeeeird! But that wouldn’t make much of a review. In a nutshell, it’s another film where aliens arrive on Earth, but one that’s centred more in the mould of drama than …
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The Accountant – add-and-subtract is just so matter-of-fact – The DVDfever Cinema Review
The Accountant stars Ben Affleck in the titular occupation as Christian Wolff, a man who suffers from Asperger’s Syndrome. I don’t know if the depiction of autism in this film was realistic, but throughout the …
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Doctor Strange – easily kicks Captain America’s arse – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Doctor Strange is a brilliant, but arrogant, neurosurgeon. He also must earn a fortune since he has a drawer full of rotating watches – yes, individually rotating, for no apparent reason, and presumably still continue …
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Jack Reacher: Never Go Back IMAX – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Never Go Back is the second Jack Reacher novel, written by Lee Child, to be adapted for the big screen, and after being less than impressed when I got Jack Reacher round the first time, …
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I, Daniel Blake – Ken Loach’s essential parable for our times – The DVDfever Cinema Review
I, Daniel Blake begins with the 59-year-old carpenter titular character, portrayed by comedian Dave Johns, applying for ESA (Employment and Support Allowance), and being asked a succession of – irrelevant, to him – questions when …
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