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Salem’s Lot is a new adaptation of the Stephen King novel, previously made for TV in 1979 and 2004, with this latest one reaching cinemas in the UK, even though in the US, it’s only …
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Presumed Innocent (2024) – The DVDfever Review – Apple TV+ – Jake Gyllenhaal
Presumed Innocent brings Scott Turow’s novel, best known as the 1990 movie starring Harrison Ford, but this time with Jake Gyllenhaal as prosecution lawyer Rusty Sabich, ultimately finding himself on the wrong end of the …
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A Man In Full – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Jeff Daniels
A Man In Full opens with a voiceover from the lead, Charlie Croker (Jeff Daniels – The Martian), wondering if anyone will miss him when he’s gone, but while he’s alive, he’ll live with vigour, …
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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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News Of The World – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Tom Hanks, Helena Zengel
News Of The World is a new Tom Hanks (A Beautiful Day In The Neighbourhood, Greyhound) film during which you should not expect music from The Jam, nor see a tawdry tabloid because it begins …
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The Queen’s Gambit – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Anya Taylor-Joy
The Queen’s Gambit centres around child chess prodigy Beth and, yes, the main star of this is Anya Taylor-Joy (Split), but in the first episode, she appears only at the start in a brief scene …
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Joker on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review – Joaquin Phoenix
Joker (Joaquin Phoenix), aka Arthur Fleck, tells himself to ‘put on a happy face’, but as he admits at one point, he’s never been happy for his entire life. But that’s the tears of a …
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Dark Waters – Trailer 1 – Mark Ruffalo
Dark Waters stars Mark Ruffalo as corporate defence lawyer Robert Bilott, who takes on an environmental lawsuit against a chemical company which exposes a lengthy history of pollution. It comes from those behind Spotlight, and …
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The Kitchen – Trailer 1 – Melissa McCarthy
The Kitchen…. Hell’s Kitchen, that is, and the wives of New York gangsters in Hell’s Kitchen, in the 1970s, continue to operate their husbands’ rackets after they’re locked up in prison. As with Can You …
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Vice – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Christian Bale
Vice opens on Sept 11th, 2001, as Dick Cheney (Christian Bale, above) is rushed into the Presidential Emergency Operations Centre, so he’s kept out of harm’s way, and then goes back to the start, in …
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