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 …
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Texas 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, …
Continue readingRed Notice – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Dwayne Johnson, Ryan Reynolds, Gal Gadot
Red Notice has a triple-threat match of bankable box office names – Dwayne Johnson, Ryan Reynolds and Gal Gadot – backed up by director Rawson Marshall Thurber, who the former has worked with in both …
Continue readingFather Christmas Is Back – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Elizabeth Hurley
Father Christmas Is Back is a Christmas film where the family’s surname is Christmas. Sisters Paulina (Naomi Frederick), Joanna (Elizabeth Hurley), Caroline (Nathalie Cox) and Vicky (Talulah Riley) are at each other’s throats. Can they …
Continue readingArmy Of Thieves – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Matthias Schweighöfer
Army Of Thieves centres around hobbyist safecracker Dieter (Matthias Schweighöfer – who also directed this), and serves as a prequel to Zack Snyder’s Army of the Dead, a great, fun zombie movie, so I was …
Continue readingNo One Gets Out Alive – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Cristina Rodlo
No One Gets Out Alive begins with archive footage in Mexico, 1963, where a mysterious box is found… Fast-forward to the present day, and a young woman is staying in a poorly-maintained, enormous house overseen …
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