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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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The Banshees of Inisherin – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson
The Banshees of Inisherin is a film which grabbed me from the original trailer, but which has a very bizarre premise. Pádraic Súilleabháin (Colin Farrell – Thirteen Lives) and Colm Doherty (Brendan Gleeson – Edge …
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The Morning Show – The DVDfever Review – Jennifer Aniston
The Morning Show is a new Apple TV+ series about the battle for Breakfast television in the US, where the trailer initially gave me the impression that New York show anchors Alex Levy (Jennifer Aniston) …
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Being John Malkovich Special Edition on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Being John Malkovich: Even 20 years on, it’s hard to find a film that’s more bizarre in the entire history of the movies. Craig Schwartz (John Cusack, who had previously starred alongside the titular actor …
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Wonderstruck on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Wonderstruck is a difficult film to describe because there’s not an awful lot lappening. Ben (Oakes Fegley, above middle) is a child in 1977 whose mother has passed away, and he’s in New York to …
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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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Blood Simple: Director’s Cut on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Blood Simple has a simple premise, but it’s far from simple how events will turn out. Texan Bar owner Julian Marty (Dan Hedaya) suspects his wife, Abby (Frances McDormand), of playing away with young barman …
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Anomalisa on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Anomalisa centres around Michael Stone (David Thewlis), a man in his 50s, and a self-help guru who has travelled to Cincinatti to give a talk on customer service. His life is boring and he can’t …
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Seven Psychopaths – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Seven Psychopaths has an interesting premise and one that feels like it could be both straight-forward as well as very complex to put together. That’s because writer/director Martin McDonagh has crafted a screenplay about a …
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Adaptation on DVD – The DVDfever Review – Nicolas Cage, Spike Jonze
Adaptation shows Spike Jonze is not known for being the most straight-forward director. I hugely enjoyed his previous main feature, Being John Malkovich, although it wasn’t perfect. Then when you watch his latest work, Adaptation, …
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