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Two For Joy begins with the last day of school for Vi (Emilia Jones, daughter of Aled Jones and she was brilliant opposite Guy Pearce in Brimstone), but life is far from easy for her. …
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Climax – The DVDfever Review – Gaspar Noé
Climax begins with an opening dance number, to a remix of Cerrone’s Supernature, which turns into an incredibly well-choreographed spin around the dance floor for everyone involved, so yeah, sod The Greatest Dancer on BBC1, …
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Alita: Battle Angel in IMAX 3D – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Alita: Battle Angel, originally was a manga known as Battle Angel Alita*. Quite why they’ve gone with this change, I don’t know and it’s never been explained, so I can only guess that it’s when …
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Polar – The DVDfever Netflix Review – Mads Mikkelsen
Polar is based on the Dark Horse graphic novel, to which I was not aware of prior to hearing about this film, but the premise is that when assassins retire at the imposed age of …
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Blindspotting on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Blindspotting centres around Collin (Daveed Diggs), who has completed a 2-month sentence in jail after what happened when he worked as the bouncer for a bar (which you’ll discover as you watch the film), and …
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Velvet Buzzsaw – The DVDfever Cinema / Netflix Review – Jake Gyllenhaal
Velvet Buzzsaw looked, from the trailer, like Netflix has knocked it out of the park again, as it teams up Nightcrawler (one of the best films of its year) with its effervescent star Jake Gyllenhaal, …
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Green Book – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Viggo Mortensen, Mahershala Ali
Green Book looked from the trailer like a colour-swap version of Driving Miss Daisy, as working-class Italian-American bouncer Tony Vallelonga – aka Tony Lip (Viggo Mortensen) – becomes the driver for African-American classical pianist Don …
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Can You Ever Forgive Me? – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Melissa McCarthy in *good film* shocker?
Can You Ever Forgive Me? marked a rare departure for me – a return to actually WANTING to watch a Melissa McCarthy movie after the godawful 2016 Ghostbusters reboot, but that’s because this is (a) …
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Mile 22 on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Mile 22 is a film I particularly looked forward to last year, since it was the fourth time director Peter Berg had worked with Mark Wahlberg, and they had a fantastic track record with Lone …
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The Predator on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
The Predator is a film which I was led to believe followed on directly from the 1987 original with Arnie, and it doesn’t. Some time has passed since then, so I can only assume we’re …
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