The Holdovers feels rather like a 1970s version of The Breakfast Club, in part, since out of all the teachers at Barton Academy, its classics professor, Paul Hunham (Paul Giamatti – Love And Mercy), draws …
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Mean Girls – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Angourie Rice (+ POST-CREDIT SCENE BREAKDOWN)
Mean Girls is a musical remake of a story about being popular and hot, originally placing Lindsay Lohan in the lead role of 16-year-old Cady Heron, who goes from being home-schooled in Africa to having …
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Masters of the Air – The DVDfever Review – Apple TV+ – Austin Butler, Barry Keoghan
Masters of the Air is a new 8-part drama on Apple TV+ from the creators of Band of Brothers, so we already know the precedent this is going to set, since that was a wonderful …
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Sexy Beast – The DVDfever Review – Paramount+ – James McArdle, Emun Elliott
Sexy Beast is an 8-part TV series based on the 2000 hit movie, which starred Ray Winstone in the lead as Gal Dove. Now with Gal portrayed by James McArdle (Andor) as a very smooth …
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The End We Start From – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Jodie Comer
The End We Start From felt like we were going to get beaten over the head with ‘climate change’ propaganda, telling us that big storms are happening because someone in your street bought a ‘gas …
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Griselda – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Sofia Vergara
Griselda… Griselda Blanco, to be precise. Portrayed by Sofía Vergara (Strays), this six-part drama – beginning in the mid-’60s, even if everything looks like the ’70s – tells the tale of the real-life Ms Blanco …
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Ferrari – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Adam Driver, Penélope Cruz
Ferrari is based on the life of the former racer with the first name Enzo, and the book subtitled “The Man, The Cars, The Races, The Machine” – all of which would rather have made …
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Poor Things (Dolby Screen) – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Emma Stone
Poor Things is very much a Frankenstein fantasy tale, where Dr. Godwin Baxter (Willem Dafoe – The Boy and the Heron) performs autopsies to his student class, whilst also having a freakish appearance because he …
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Night Swim – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Wyatt Russell, Kerry Condon
Night Swim is a new horror movie which felt more like ‘Light Swim’ for reasons I’ll explain later on, but first up, the plot… In the summer 1992, a young girl is taken from her …
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Role Play – The DVDfever Review – Amazon Prime Video – Kaley Cuoco
Role Play is a highly-improbable comedy about a Suzie Homemaker-type – Kaley Cuoco (A Million Ways To Die In The West) as Emma Brackett – who’s kept a long-term secret from her husband, Dave (David …
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