Black Phone 2 opens in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, in 1957, where a particular character is having to make a desperate call on a payphone, before we move in to North Denver, 1982, with …
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Leave The World Behind – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Julia Roberts
Leave The World Behind is a new Netflix thriller, the title of which comes from the tagline on the Air BnB-style holiday website being perused by Amanda Sandford (Julia Roberts – Money Monster), who figures …
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Raymond and Ray – The DVDfever Review – Ewan McGregor, Ethan Hawke – Apple TV+
Raymond and Ray is one of those low-key movies which, overall, feels more than the sum of its parts. It centres around the two half-brothers in the title, Raymond (Ewan McGregor) and Ray (Ethan Hawke), …
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The Guilty (2021) – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Jake Gyllenhaal
The Guilty (2021) is a remake of the 2018 Danish real-time thriller which was very good, but the action moves to California, where once on-the-beat cop Joe Baylor (Jake Gyllenhaal – Nightcrawler) has been demoted …
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Cut Throat City – Trailer 1 – Wesley Snipes, RZA
Cut Throat City is a heist movie, directed by RZA, set in the lower ninth ward in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina, in 2005. Based on this trailer, it’s not wholly my bag, but looks …
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The Captor (Stockholm) – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Ethan Hawke
The Captor was originally called Stockholm, in a film based on a bizarre, but true, bank heist in 1973 which turned into a hostage crisis and spawned the term “Stockholm Syndrome”, as the captor bonds …
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The Kid (2019) on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
The Kid paints the scenario of a very unhappy family, as young lad Rio Cutler (Jake Schur) is faced with no choice other than to take out his evil father, who has just dispatched of …
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Stockholm – Trailer 1 – Ethan Hawke
Stockholm tells the bizarre, but true, story of the infamous 1973 hostage crisis in Stockholm, and a tale of Stockholm Syndrome, where the captor bonds with the criminal – in this case, Kaj Hansson (Ethan …
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The Kid – Trailer 1 – Chris Pratt
The Kid is not a remake of the decent Bruce Willis time-travel-based movie from 2000 which most people have forgotten about, but a new take on the Billy The Kid story, and one which looks …
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First Reformed – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Ethan Hawke
First Reformed is the name of the church run by Rev. Ernst Toller (Ethan Hawke), who begins to keep a diary for one year, with the intent that, after this time, he’ll destroy it. Quite …
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