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Without Remorse is the latest spin-off from the Jack Ryan series, given that post-Harrison Ford attempts to reboot the series have fallen flat with 2002’s The Sum Of All Fears, with Ben Affleck, and 2014’s …
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Stowaway – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Anna Kendrick, Toni Collette
Stowaway begins with what feels like the most ridiculous of premises in that a crew going to Mars has just three individuals on it. Really?! Even last year’s Away had at least seven on board …
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Mortal Kombat 2021 – The DVDfever Review – Jessica McNamee – HBO Max
Mortal Kombat 2021… Punch. Kick. Punch. Kick. Punch. Kick. Good guy kills bad guy. Bad guy kills good guy. There’s a sulky teenager. There’s a fatality with a heart being ripped out. There’s a macho …
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Promising Young Woman – The DVDfever Review – Carey Mulligan
Promising Young Woman begins with its lead character, Cassandra (Carey Mulligan – The Dig), feeling very drunk in a nightclub, and seemingly unwisely getting a lift back with fellow clubber Jerry (Adam Brody) to his …
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Thunder Force – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Melissa McCarthy, Octavia Spencer
Thunder Force brings together Melissa McCarthy and Octavia Spencer as superheroes… yeah, exactly. Early on, we learn how, in March 1983, cosmic rays struck the Earth, etc. and affected a ton of people who became …
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BFI Flare Festival 2021 – The DVDfever Review by Helen M Jerome
BFI Flare Festival 2021 by Helen M Jerome: I’ve attended the main BFI London Film Festival in person – and virtually – for a couple of decades, but this is the very first time I’ve …
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Sound of Metal – The DVDfever Review – Amazon Prime Video – Riz Ahmed
Sound of Metal stars Riz Ahmed (above) as Ruben, a former drug addict who’s drummer in a heavy metal band and is starting to go deaf due to the excessive volume he’s had to deal …
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Godzilla Vs Kong – The DVDfever Review – Millie Bobby Brown
Godzilla Vs Kong is the fourth film in this series following the awful, rebooted 2014 Godzilla movie, 2017’s reasonable Kong: Skull Island, and 2019’s meh Godzilla: King of the Monsters. On the plus side, at …
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The Mauritanian – The DVDfever Review – Tahar Rahim, Jodie Foster
The Mauritanian is a true life drama which begins in November 2001, two months after 9/11, where the titular character, Mohamedou Ould Slahi (Tahar Rahim – The Serpent), is arrested, but as we first see …
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Tom and Jerry: The Movie – The DVDfever Review – Chloë Grace Moretz
Tom and Jerry: The Movie: I grew up with a big love for this cat-and-mouse pairing in cartoons back in the ’80s, some of which were even originally made in 2.55:1 Cinemascope, but badly cropped …
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