The Unforgivable centres around Ruth Slater (Sandra Bullock – Bird Box), who’s just been released from jail after 20 years due to killing a cop, albeit in extreme circumstances. Her father had just committed suicide, …
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The Power of the Dog – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Benedict Cumberbatch
The Power of the Dog is a Western set in Montana, 1925, where the unnecessarily nasty Phil Burbank (Benedict Cumberbatch) constantly refers to his complacent brother, George (Jesse Plemons – The Irishman), as “fatso”. Plus, …
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Red Notice – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Dwayne Johnson, Ryan Reynolds, Gal Gadot
Red Notice has a triple-threat match of bankable box office names – Dwayne Johnson, Ryan Reynolds and Gal Gadot – backed up by director Rawson Marshall Thurber, who the former has worked with in both …
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Father Christmas Is Back – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Elizabeth Hurley
Father Christmas Is Back is a Christmas film where the family’s surname is Christmas. Sisters Paulina (Naomi Frederick), Joanna (Elizabeth Hurley), Caroline (Nathalie Cox) and Vicky (Talulah Riley) are at each other’s throats. Can they …
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Army Of Thieves – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Matthias Schweighöfer
Army Of Thieves centres around hobbyist safecracker Dieter (Matthias Schweighöfer – who also directed this), and serves as a prequel to Zack Snyder’s Army of the Dead, a great, fun zombie movie, so I was …
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No One Gets Out Alive – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Cristina Rodlo
No One Gets Out Alive begins with archive footage in Mexico, 1963, where a mysterious box is found… Fast-forward to the present day, and a young woman is staying in a poorly-maintained, enormous house overseen …
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The Starling – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Melissa McCarthy
The Starling centres around Lilly Maynard (Melissa McCarthy – Nine Perfect Strangers) and husband, Jack (Chris O’Dowd), who welcome baby Katie into their life. After the opening credits, however, we see Jack is in a …
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The Guilty (2021) – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Jake Gyllenhaal
The Guilty (2021) is a remake of the 2018 Danish real-time thriller which was very good, but the action moves to California, where once on-the-beat cop Joe Baylor (Jake Gyllenhaal – Nightcrawler) has been demoted …
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Kate – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Mary Elizabeth Winstead
Kate is a professional assassin, played by Mary Elizabeth Winstead (10 Cloverfield Lane, Birds Of Prey). She’s not exactly Nikita, but her latest target was a father walking with his daughter – which, to her, …
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Sweet Girl – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Jason Momoa, Isabela Merced
Sweet Girl begins with aggrieved Ray Cooper (Jason Momoa – Zack Snyder’s Justice League) being followed by the cops, then jumpimh off the roof of a tall building into the sea (amongst a sea of …
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