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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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The Beautiful Game – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Bill Nighy
The Beautiful Game is obviously a football movie, but this one in particular is set around the Homeless World Cup, an event which I hadn’t heard of before, but have now learned this is actually …
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Passenger – The DVDfever Review – ITV drama – Wunmi Mosaku
Passenger sees ITV breaking out the A.I. script generator marked “cop drama”, this time even asking it to include “Twin Peaks” feelings, to the point where someone even references David Lynch’s bizarro world, claiming the …
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The Lyricist Wannabe – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Suet-Ying Chung
The Lyricist Wannabe is a new Cantonese Chinese film which centres around Law Wing Sze (Suet-Ying Chung, above-right) with the titular dilemma in a film which takes place over six years, from 2006 onwards – …
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The New Boy – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Cate Blanchett
The New Boy doesn’t specify the period in which it’s set, but over time, it becomes clear it’s around 1940, with the World War II references. It’s also a time when those in the Australian …
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Twisted Metal – The DVDfever Review – Paramount+ – Anthony Mackie
Twisted Metal comes to Paramount+ after last year’s debut in the US on Peacock, and is based on the videogame from quite some time ago, although it does get an early reference in this show …
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Fight Club 25th Anniversary – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Brad Pitt
Fight Club is 25 years old in 2024, and I went to see it, but, I’m sorry, I can’t talk about it. Fight Club is in cinemas now, and is available on Blu-ray and DVD. …
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Drive-Away Dolls – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Margaret Qualley, Geraldine Viswanathan
Drive-Away Dolls sounds like the title of a Thelma And Louise-style movie, but it’s not quite that. First-up – and this must be an American term as I haven’t come across it, “Drive-away” means to …
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Road House (2024) – The DVDfever Review – Amazon Prime Video – Jake Gyllenhaal
Road House (2024) comes 35 years after the original, starring the late, great Patrick Swayze, with Jake Gyllenhaal taking the role of human punchbag Dalton. It’s been some time since I saw the original, and …
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Coma – The DVDfever Review – Channel 5 drama – Jason Watkins
Coma starts with Simon Henderson (Jason Watkins – Wicked Little Letters) seeing an old man being kicked to the ground by a bunch of yobs, and that’s actually quite timely, given how I saw the …
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