Senior Year centres around Stephanie Conway – Rebel Wilson (Grimsby), for most of the film, but as Angourie Rice (The Nice Guys) in earlier scenes – whose mother has long since passed away yet she …
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The Bubble – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Karen Gillan
The Bubble is a spoof actioner centred around a team of actors who start in one of the biggest… well, 23rd biggest, movies franchises ever made, Cliff Beasts. Given that Karen Gillan is in this, …
Continue readingWindfall – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Lily Collins, Jesse Plemons
Windfall is a film where all three leads are some of the producers, as well as one having co-written it. None of the characters have a proper name, so I’ll just refer to the names …
Continue readingBlack Crab – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Noomi Rapace
Black Crab sees Caroline Edh (Noomi Rapace – Rupture, What Happened To Monday), and daughter Vanja, driving through a highway tunnel, then having stopped for the queue, before out of the blue, they hear gunshots …
Continue readingThe Adam Project – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Ryan Reynolds
The Adam Project begins in 2050, where we’re told onscreen, “Time travel exists. You just don’t know it yet”. Then, in the present day, one night, as young Adam Reed (Walker Scobell) sees his mum …
Continue readingTexas Chainsaw Massacre 2022 – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Elsie Fisher
Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2022 begins with a brief summary of the original film, since this one follows on from that, almost 50 years later, completely ignoring any other sequels or remakes (not that I’ve seen …
Continue readingThe House – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Helena Bonham Carter
The House is billed as a dark, animated comedy, and is told in three chapters, but note that each chapter has different directors as well as a different style of animation, the first part featuring …
Continue readingDon’t Look Up – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Jennifer Lawrence
Don’t Look Up begins with young astronomer Kate Dibiasky (Jennifer Lawrence – mother!) discovering a new comet, along with the fact that and it hasn’t been closer to the sun since before human civilisation began. …
Continue readingThe Unforgivable – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Sandra Bullock
The Unforgivable centres around Ruth Slater (Sandra Bullock – Bird Box), who’s just been released from jail after 20 years due to killing a cop, albeit in extreme circumstances. Her father had just committed suicide, …
Continue readingThe Power of the Dog – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Benedict Cumberbatch
The Power of the Dog is a Western set in Montana, 1925, where the unnecessarily nasty Phil Burbank (Benedict Cumberbatch) constantly refers to his complacent brother, George (Jesse Plemons – The Irishman), as “fatso”. Plus, …
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