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Madres is a new Amazon Prime / Blumhouse movie for Halloween, and starts well, as Diana (Ariana Guerra) and Beto (Tenoch Huerta) have left Mexico, settled in the US, and moved into a new house. …
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The Manor – The DVDfever Review – Amazon Prime Video – Barbara Hershey
The Manor centres around Judith (Barbara Hershey), a former ballet dancer, then teacher, but as she reaches 70, time catches up with us all and following a stroke and receiving treatment for Parkinson’s disease, she …
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Black As Night – The DVDfever Review – Amazon Prime Video – Keith David
Black As Night means it’s time for zombies again, and they’re partial to eating hobos… Leading the charge is Shawna (Asjha Cooper), who fancies Chris (Craig Tate). Safe to say, before long, she’s bitten by …
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Blush – The DVDfever Review – Joe Mateo – Apple TV+ short animated film
Blush is a new short animation on Apple TV+ about an astronaut, and whereas Matt Damon in The Martian was a botanist, this chap is a horticulturist, but both want to try and grow something …
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Bingo Hell – The DVDfever Review – Amazon Prime Video – Adriana Barraza
Bingo Hell centres around the town of Oak Springs, where every business is going bust, and they all need a lift in their lives. Enter Mr Big (Richard Brake), who has ‘BIG WINNER’ for a …
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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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Birds of Paradise – The DVDfever Review – Amazon Prime – Diana Silvers
Birds of Paradise centres around a ballet dance-off contest against professional dancers, where the prize is join the Opéra national de Paris, the two leads – Kate (Diana Silvers) and Marine (Kristine Froseth) – having …
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The Mad Women’s Ball – The DVDfever Review – Amazon Prime Video – Mélanie Laurent
The Mad Women’s Ball is a pet project for Mélanie Laurent (The Concert, Oxygen), who has directed and written the screenplay for this, based on a novel by Victoria Mas and set in 1885, in …
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