Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is the first of two spin-offs to the Star Wars canon, this one placed inbetween the lacklustre Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens, and next Christmas’ Episode VIII. …
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BFI 60th London Film Festival Part 3 (2016) by Helen M Jerome
BFI 60th London Film Festival Part 3: Now’s the time to focus on the extraordinarily rich crop of documentaries from the 2016 London Film Festival – including lots of biopics, some very personal passion projects, …
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Snowden – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Snowden… Edward Snowden… the guy who spilled all of the CIA’s secrets about snooping on civilians. George W. Bush did nothing to stop it, and then when Barack Obama took over the Presidency, he vowed …
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Sully: Miracle On The Hudson – The non-disaster movie is a disaster – The DVDfever Cinema Review
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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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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