Hurry Up Tomorrow centres around pop star The Weeknd, playing a fictionalised version of himself, and using his real name, Abel Tesfaye (and who was also in Netflix’s excellent Uncut Gems). Plot-wise, such that it …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of THE WEDDING BANQUET!
The Wedding Banquet is Queer As(ia) Folk on the big screen. Centered around the Chinese LGBTQ+ community – even though, in this case, it’s only really LG… Dom RobinsonReviewer of movies, videogames and music since …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of TOURIST FAMILY!
Tourist Family centres around a Sri Lankan family – led by Dharmadas (M Sasikumar), who’s travelled to seek refuge in India, with the help of his wife, Vasanthi’s (Simran), brother, Prakash (Yogi Babu), with a …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of THE SURFER!
The Surfer is a bizarre low-budget thriller with a 1960s-style feel to the opening, but when it starts getting down to business in this film where few characters are given an actual name, Nicolas Cage …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of THE UNINVITED!
The Uninvited centres around wealthy couple Rose (Elizabeth Reaser), a middle-aged actress who’s now struggling to get the roles that go to younger women, and her film star agent husband, Sammy (Walton Goggins – American …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of MR BURTON!
Mr Burton is a drama set in Port Talbot, 1942, which, for some reason, took a whole month to reach Odeon, but then they’ve had problems with other distributors lately, including Lionsgate, which is why …
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BFI Flare Festival 2025 by Helen M Jerome – The DVDfever Review
BFI Flare Festival 2025: Every time the BFI Flare Festival comes around, it feels bigger and bolder, and plunges into all sorts of genres with just their LGBTQIA+ flavour linking them. This year’s schedule was …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of FINAL DESTINATION: BLOODLINES!
Final Destination: Bloodlines got an early screening at my local Cineworld for those who went to watch a double-bill with the original 2000 film, simply titled, Final Destination, approximately a week before the official release. …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of THUNDERBOLTS*!
Thunderbolts* opens with a decent enough scene with Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh – We Live In Time), since after the actress physically jumped off the Merdeka 118 building in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – and on …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of THE ACCOUNTANT 2!
The Accountant 2 opens with former Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) Deputy Director Ray King (JK Simmons – Red One) getting involved with shady shenanigans with the not-so-mysterious Anaïs (Daniella Pineda – Plane), given how …
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