Maleficent: Mistress of Evil sees Angelina Jolie return as the evil Maleficent, and this has taken five years to come round, but here it is. This time, the complex relationship of Maleficent and Aurora (Elle …
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OSCARS 2018 Nominations announced!
The OSCARS 2018 will take place on Sunday March 4th, and will be broadcast on Sky in the middle of the night if you’re in the UK. The nominations are as follows, and once again, …
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The BAFTA 2018 Awards will take place on Sunday February 18th 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 …
Continue readingPhantom Thread – Trailer 1 – Daniel Day-Lewis
Phantom Thread is set in the fashion world of 1950s London, where Reynolds Woodcock (Daniel Day-Lewis) is a dress-maker, commissioned to design for members of high society and the royal family. Since this is from …
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BAFTA 2017 Television nominations have been announced, and the awards will be broadcast on BBC1 on May 14th. Leading actor Adeel Akhtar – Murdered By My Father Babou Ceesay – Damilola, Our Loved Boy Robbie …
Continue readingRupture on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Rupture was only ever billed with a brief premise that it centres around single mother Renee (Noomi Rapace) who’s abducted by a strange organisation and has to try and escape. But why? And who would …
Continue readingMum Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review
Mum is Lesley Manville‘s character, Cathy (right), coming to terms with her husband, Dave, haven’t recently passed away. As with any death, it’s not just about what still lies around the house, but little things …
Continue readingBAFTA 2016 Television nominations announced!
BAFTA 2016 Television nominations have been announced, and the awards will be broadcast on BBC1 on May 8th. Best Actor: Ben Whishaw, London Spy Idris Elba, Luther Mark Rylance, Wolf Hall Stephen Graham, This is …
Continue readingRiver Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review
River is a drama I was looking forward to from when I first saw the trailer, but as with the recent From Darkness, this is another case of the BBC going through a phase of …
Continue readingThe Go-Between (2015) – The DVDfever Review
The Go-Between is set in Norfolk, 1900, but begins in 1950 with the elderly Leo Colston (Jim Broadbent) lamenting in bucketfully. He wails (in his narration), “The past is a foreign country. They do things …
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