Daphne is a classic example of one of those films which really grabbed me from the trailer, below, but turned out to be considerably less than the sum of its parts. Portrayed by Emily Beecham, …
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Wind River on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Wind River is centred around the Wind River Indian Reservation, in Wyoming, where Cory Lambert (Jeremy Renner) is called to hunt a lion – which killed a horse – in teaching its young how to …
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The Post – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Pentagon Papers Pish
The Post centres around US newspaper The Washington Post, and revealing deep government secrets about the Vietnam War, courtesy of military analyst Daniel Ellsberg (Matthew Rhys) who’s travelled to the country in question, in 1966, …
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Maze on DVD – The DVDfever Review
Maze is the prison, in Northern Ireland, where, in 1983, Larry Marley (Tom Vaughan-Lawlor) ends up after ten of his friends have died from hunger strike, including Bobby Sands. Marley’s plan is to break out, …
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Once Removed – Inside No.9 Series 4 Episode 3 – The DVDfever Review
Once Removed is the third episode of Inside No.9 Series 4, and kicks off with an opening-and-a-half which leads to a situation which has to be seen to be believed, before the action heads back …
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I Am Not A Witch on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
I Am Not A Witch is one of those films where I wasn’t really sure what I just watched, even though it parts of it were certainly worth a watch. Shula (Maggie Mulubwa) is an …
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Darkest Hour – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Good Gary. Film Failure
Darkest Hour gives Gary Oldman a turn as Prime Minister Winston Churchill, after Brian Cox’s Churchill last year, but with Oldman as the man at the time of the Dunkirk evacuations, so incredibly portrayed last …
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Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, is what Mildred (Frances McDormand) hires out when she spots them, early on, and wants to put something out there relating to the death of her daughter, but she asks …
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Good Time on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Good Time is a crime thriller with two brothers attempting a bank robbery which doesn’t quite go to plan. With one of them quite sharp, and the other mentally ill, and with Connie (Robert Pattinson) …
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Bernie Clifton’s Dressing Room – Inside No.9 Series 4 Episode 2 – The DVDfever Review
Bernie Clifton’s Dressing Room is the second episode of Inside No.9 Series 4, and is a much stronger episode than last week’s return, this time centering on the two leads as ‘Cheese and Crackers’, a …
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