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The House is billed as a dark, animated comedy, and is told in three chapters, but note that each chapter has different directors as well as a different style of animation, the first part featuring …
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Don’t Look Up – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Jennifer Lawrence
Don’t Look Up begins with young astronomer Kate Dibiasky (Jennifer Lawrence – mother!) discovering a new comet, along with the fact that and it hasn’t been closer to the sun since before human civilisation began. …
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BFI London Film Festival 2021 Part 2 by Helen M Jerome – The DVDfever Review
BFI London Film Festival 2021 Part 2: Here we go. As promised, the follow-up to the first part of our extensive overview of LFF 2021 focuses on some outstanding directorial debuts, documentaries and a couple …
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BFI London Film Festival 2021 Part 1 by Helen M Jerome – The DVDfever Review
BFI London Film Festival 2021 Part 1: Back to life. Back to normality. Well, almost. After a 90 per cent online festival in 2020, in 2021 the BFI opted to make it almost totally in-person, …
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Swan Song – The DVDfever Review – Mahershala Ali – Apple TV+
Swan Song stars Mahershala Ali (Green Book) as Cameron Turner, who’s terminally ill. But he’s trying to find a way round that. The film is set in the near future, in a time of self-driving …
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Last Train To Christmas – The DVDfever Review – Sky Cinema – Michael Sheen
Last Train To Christmas is set entirely on a train, and begins on Christmas Eve, 1985, with the film’s opening 16:9 aspect ratio neatly changing back to 4:3. After embarking on the vehicle in question, …
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Being The Ricardos – The DVDfever Review – Amazon Prime – Nicole Kidman
Being The Ricardos takes us behind the scenes of I Love Lucy, and the lives of the couple both offscreen and on, Lucille Ball (Nicole Kidman) and Desi Arnaz (Javier Bardem). Back in those days, …
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The Unforgivable – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Sandra Bullock
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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Encounter – The DVDfever Review – Amazon Prime Video – Riz Ahmed
Encounter is a new thriller starring Riz Ahmed (Four Lions, The Sound of Metal) in which the aliens are coming to town! Early on, something crash-lands to Earth, with a loud bang, triggering car alarms …
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London Korean Film Festival 2021 Review by Helen M Jerome
London Korean Film Festival 2021 Review by Helen M Jerome: To paraphrase Samuel Johnson, if you’re tired of Korean film, you’re tired of life… such is its breadth and quality. Positioned in its own sweet …
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