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Slow Horses centres around an MI5 team who are a bit rubbish, making several mistakes in their career to date, so it makes you wonder if they’ve ever been sent for re-training, including the hot-headed …
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The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Ryan Reynolds
The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard comes to cinemas just as everything is confirmed as staying under lock and key for another few weeks. I was disappointed with the first film because while it had an outstanding …
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The Woman in the Window – Official Trailer – Amy Adams
The Woman in the Window stars Amy Adams as Anna Fox, an agoraphobic woman living alone in New York, who begins spying on her new neighbours only to witness a disturbing act of violence, and …
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Mank – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Gary Oldman
Mank…Herman J Mankiewicz, played by Gary Oldman, is a man whose scriptwriting work often went uncredited, but back in 1940, at the age of just 24, Orson Welles was given a contract by then-struggling RKO …
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The Laundromat – Trailer 1 – Gary Oldman
The Laundromat centres around Ellen Martin (Meryl Streep), and when her idyllic vacation takes an unthinkable turn, she begins investigating a fake insurance policy, only to find herself down a rabbit hole of questionable dealings …
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Hunter Killer on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Hunter Killer – I can’t say it’s ‘Die Hard on a submarine’, since (a) it’s not, and (b) that was claimed by the so-so Under Siege in 1992. You don’t watch Gerard Butler action films …
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Hunter Killer – Trailer 1 – Gerard Butler
Hunter Killer – or ‘Submarine Has Fallen‘ – sees Gerard Butler as Captain Joe Glass, an untested American submarine captain whwo teams up with US Navy Seals to rescue the Russian president, who has been …
Continue readingOSCARS 2018: The Winners!
The OSCARS 2018 took place last night. The nominations are here, and the winners are as follows, although… #OscarsSoPredictable: Best Picture: The Shape of Water Dom RobinsonReviewer of movies, videogames and music since 1994. Aortic …
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The BAFTA 2018 Awards took place tonight. The nominations are here, and the winners are as follows… so there ARE spoilers, since as I post this, the awards are still being broadcast on BBC1: Best …
Continue readingBAFTAs and Oscars – why are they so false and unrepresentative of popular opinion?
BAFTAs 2018 are broadcast tonight, with the Oscars not far away, but in both cases, as with other awards ceremonies, all the same sorts of films being up for awards. Frances McDormand is up for …
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