The Choral reunites director Nicholas Hytner with national treasure Alan Bennett, after their 2015 film, The Old Lady and the Van, and three episodes of the 2020 Talking Heads revival, An Ordinary Woman, Bed Among …
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The Old Oak – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Ken Loach
The Old Oak – so-called because it’s the name of the last remaining pub in the area – opens with one of many Syrian families moving into Newcastle-upon-Tyne area, the area run-down and deprived like …
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Allelujah! – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Jennifer Saunders, Alan Bennett
Allelujah! is a film based on a 2018 Alan Bennett (Talking Heads) play, where Sister Gilpin (Jennifer Saunders – The Stranger) steers the Bethlehem Hospital with a firm hand on the tiller, brilliantly mixing in …
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Sorry We Missed You on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review – Ken Loach
Sorry We Missed You is the latest movie from Ken Loach to shine a much-needed spotlight on the problems that blight today’s society, as did 2016’s I, Daniel Blake. Similarly, he appeared on Question Time …
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I, Daniel Blake on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
I, Daniel Blake begins with the 59-year-old carpenter titular character, portrayed by comedian Dave Johns, applying for ESA (Employment and Support Allowance), and being asked a succession of – irrelevant, to him – questions when …
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I, Daniel Blake – Ken Loach’s essential parable for our times – The DVDfever Cinema Review
I, Daniel Blake begins with the 59-year-old carpenter titular character, portrayed by comedian Dave Johns, applying for ESA (Employment and Support Allowance), and being asked a succession of – irrelevant, to him – questions when …
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The Zero Theorem on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
The Zero Theorem is one of those off-the-wall films I wanted to see when it came out at the cinema, but my local Odeon criminally ignored it, and while I could’ve found somewhere in Manchester …
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