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Undergods is one of those films set in a dystopian future, in a world displayed in muted colours, and surrounded by fog as if everything’s about to end, and an environment which makes George Orwell’s …
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Oxygen – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Mélanie Laurent
Oxygen has a premise which feels a bit similar to Ryan Reynolds’ 2010 movie Buried, where his character was trapped in a particular situation and needs to be rescued quickly, otherwise it could prove fatal, …
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Things Heard And Seen – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Amanda Seyfried
Things Heard And Seen: It’s the winter of 1980, the best music of the decade has yet to be heard, and George spots some blood appearing on his car windscreen… Head back nine months to …
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Without Remorse – The DVDfever Review – Amazon Prime Video – Michael B Jordan
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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