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BFI Flare Festival 2024 by Helen M Jerome: It feels like the annual BFI Flare Festival is growing into something loud, proud and significant. Boasting features, documentaries and shorts for every taste, it also embraces …
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Parasyte: The Grey – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Jeon So-nee
Parasyte: The Grey opens with the proposal that if you reduce the population to 1% of its size, would the poison in the water reduce by the same amount? Or, just cut the numbers down …
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The Persian Version – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Layla Mohammadi
The Persian Version largely centres around rebellious young woman Leila (Layla Mohammadi – Special Ops: Lioness), who wears a burkini to a Halloween party, so you can see a ton of skin below the waist, …
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Late Night With The Devil – The DVDfever Cinema Review – David Dastmalchian
Late Night With The Devil sets out a 1977 Halloween special for the talk show hosted by faltering Jack Delroy (David Dastmalchian – Dune Part One), who was hot stuff when he signed with the …
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Immaculate – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Sydney Sweeney
Immaculate sees Sister Cecilia (Sydney Sweeney – Madame Web) rocking up at a new convent to start her term of endurance, this coming after an initial scene that will rather point out why she’s making …
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This Town – The DVDfever Review – BBC – Steven Knight
This Town comes from the pen of Steven Knight, who brought us Peaky Blinders – a series I’ve still to see. Opening on Lozells Road, Birmingham in 1981, before it moves on to Falls Road, …
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A Gentleman in Moscow – The DVDfever Review – Paramount+ – Ewan McGregor
A Gentleman in Moscow is a new 8-part drama with Ewan McGregor (Raymond And Ray) in the titular role of Alexander Rostov. First up, we’re told that the 1917 Revolution in Russia led to the …
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The Twelve – The DVDfever Review – ITV drama – Sam Neill
The Twelve centres around a murder trial, with the suspect being artist Kate Lawson (Kate Mulvany – Elvis), accused of killing her 14-year-old niece, Claire Spears (Coco Jack Gillies – Mad Max: Fury Road), except …
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Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Paul Rudd
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire proves that no matter how much you flog a dead horse, the more it’ll continue to get up. It’s probably a ghost at this point… Anyhoo, this fifth film that bears the …
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Big Mood – The DVDfever Review – Channel 4 – Nicola Coughlan
Big Mood is a new vehicle for Derry Girls‘ Nicola Coughlan (Barbie) as Maggie, where her opening gambit is to go back to her old school that’s “like Grange Hill, but somehow less glamourous” to …
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