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The Little Mermaid is Disney’s live action (almost) version of the classic Hans Christian Anderson story, in which we learn that mermaids don’t have tears… Well, even if they did, who would see them underwater? …
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Tag: Melissa McCarthy
God’s Favourite Idiot – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Melissa McCarthy, Ben Falcone
God’s Favourite Idiot is a new Netflix comedy series where you shouldn’t expect subtlety or a family viewing experience. Slovenly tech guy Clark Thompson (Ben Falcone) gets struck down by some sort of lightning, but …
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The Starling – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Melissa McCarthy
The Starling centres around Lilly Maynard (Melissa McCarthy – Nine Perfect Strangers) and husband, Jack (Chris O’Dowd), who welcome baby Katie into their life. After the opening credits, however, we see Jack is in a …
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Nine Perfect Strangers – The DVDfever Review – Nicole Kidman, Michael Shannon
Nine Perfect Strangers centres around… as the title suggests, and takes into account a rag-tag bunch of men and women who are in rather tired relationships, marriages or single lives, and have money to burn. …
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Thunder Force – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Melissa McCarthy, Octavia Spencer
Thunder Force brings together Melissa McCarthy and Octavia Spencer as superheroes… yeah, exactly. Early on, we learn how, in March 1983, cosmic rays struck the Earth, etc. and affected a ton of people who became …
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Superintelligence – Official Trailer – Melissa McCarthy, James Corden
Superintelligence seemed like a reasonable idea at first, when an all-powerful AI chooses to study the most average person on Earth, Carol Peters (Melissa McCarthy), in the lead-up to Christmas. Sadly, the voice (and face, …
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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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Can You Ever Forgive Me? – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Melissa McCarthy in *good film* shocker?
Can You Ever Forgive Me? marked a rare departure for me – a return to actually WANTING to watch a Melissa McCarthy movie after the godawful 2016 Ghostbusters reboot, but that’s because this is (a) …
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OSCARS 2019 Nominations announced!
The OSCARS 2019 will take place on Sunday February 24th in the US, and will be broadcast on Sky in the middle of the night from 1am on the Monday, if you’re in the UK. …
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BAFTA 2019 nominations announced!
The BAFTA 2019 Awards will take place on Sunday February 10th and will be broadcast on BBC1 that evening. The nominations are as follows and, as usual, they include a stack of films which haven’t …
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