Balloon takes us up, up and away… eventually, in a World War II tale of two families based in East Germany who would rather be in West Germany, because the Nazis are nasty. The first …
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X-Men: Dark Phoenix on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
X-Men: Dark Phoenix brings the X-Men saga to a conclusion after 19 years and 12 movies under the 20th Century Fox banner, as it gets absorbed into the Marvel canon behemoth, as has also happened …
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Kaleidoscope – The DVDfever Review – Toby Jones
Kaleidoscope gives us Toby Jones (Marvellous, Don’t Forget The Driver) as Carl, who lives in a flat that looks like it hasn’t been redecorated since the ’70s. In fact, as he wakes up from a …
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Thunder Road – The DVDfever Review – Jim Cummings
Thunder Road begins with police officer Jim Arnaud (writer/director Jim Cummings) attending the funeral of his mother, Brenda, who has died at the young age of 54. He has to give a heartfelt eulogy at …
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Ad Astra in IMAX – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Ad Astra feels like a weird movie to be watching in 2019, as it’s rather like a road movie, but set in space, and feels a lot more like an indie movie than something mainstream …
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Rambo: Last Blood – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Rambo: Last Blood: Everybody’s favourite one-man killing machine, John Rambo is back. Back for one last time in the final chapter of what I’m sure wasn’t a planned quintology. So given we started with First …
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Double Date on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review – British horror comedy
Double Date is a British horror comedy which came out for a limited cinema run in October 2017, but I’m so glad that it’s finally got a Blu-ray and DVD release for reasons I shall …
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The Fight – The DVDfever Review – Jessica Hynes
The Fight is the directorial debut of Jessica Hynes (Shaun of the Dead, Spaced, Years And Years). She also takes the lead as Tina, a mother whose life is in turmoil her daughter, Emma (Sennia …
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Long Shot on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review – Charlize Theron
Long Shot looks like the kind of comedy I’ve seen a zillion times, but I’d heard good things about it, even though 125 minutes does seem way too long for comedy. About 100 minutes should …
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Amazing Grace on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review – Aretha Franklin
Amazing Grace is not the Aretha Franklin documentary I was expecting, but with this concert film being released in the year after her untimely death, we instead get a concert featuring the lady, plus drummer …
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