The Bricklayer. Last month, it was The Beekeeper. Whoever next? The Butcher? The Baker? The Candlestick Maker? Anyhoo, the attempted plot in this is that someone called Popov has popped off… having been killed off …
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American Fiction – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Jeffrey Wright
American Fiction centres around Monk – full name Thelonious Ellison, played by Jeffrey Wright (Asteroid City), a professor who upsets one of his students by talking about a work with a contraversial title, and how …
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Migration 3D – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Kumail Nanjiani, Elizabeth Banks
Migration 3D: Yes, there are still some 3D films around, even if the only way I’m going to get value from that part of my Odeon LimitlessPlus subscription is to sit through a cacophony of …
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All of Us Strangers – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Andrew Scott, Paul Mescal
All of Us Strangers opens with Adam (Andrew Scott – Spectre), a writer who adapts film scripts, working late in his apartment, in a largely empty building, since for whatever reason, there’s hardly anybody living …
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Jackdaw – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Jenna Coleman
Jackdaw shows that if I thought Baghead was going to be the low point of the movie week, this film stopped me and shouted, “Hold my beer!” Someone’s clearly been watching Titanic too much, since …
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Baghead – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Freya Allan, Peter Mullan
Baghead – what a name for a movie! Sounds like some sort of Scouse slur. The film opens with Owen Lark (Peter Mullan, chewing scenery, as usual), making one of those movie “If you’re watching …
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The Holdovers – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Paul Giamatti
The Holdovers feels rather like a 1970s version of The Breakfast Club, in part, since out of all the teachers at Barton Academy, its classics professor, Paul Hunham (Paul Giamatti – Love And Mercy), draws …
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Mean Girls – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Angourie Rice (+ POST-CREDIT SCENE BREAKDOWN)
Mean Girls is a musical remake of a story about being popular and hot, originally placing Lindsay Lohan in the lead role of 16-year-old Cady Heron, who goes from being home-schooled in Africa to having …
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The End We Start From – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Jodie Comer
The End We Start From felt like we were going to get beaten over the head with ‘climate change’ propaganda, telling us that big storms are happening because someone in your street bought a ‘gas …
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Ferrari – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Adam Driver, Penélope Cruz
Ferrari is based on the life of the former racer with the first name Enzo, and the book subtitled “The Man, The Cars, The Races, The Machine” – all of which would rather have made …
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