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 …
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Father 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 …
Continue readingThe 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 …
Continue readingThe Guilty (2021) – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Jake Gyllenhaal
The Guilty (2021) is a remake of the 2018 Danish real-time thriller which was very good, but the action moves to California, where once on-the-beat cop Joe Baylor (Jake Gyllenhaal – Nightcrawler) has been demoted …
Continue readingKate – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Mary Elizabeth Winstead
Kate is a professional assassin, played by Mary Elizabeth Winstead (10 Cloverfield Lane, Birds Of Prey). She’s not exactly Nikita, but her latest target was a father walking with his daughter – which, to her, …
Continue readingSweet Girl – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Jason Momoa, Isabela Merced
Sweet Girl begins with aggrieved Ray Cooper (Jason Momoa – Zack Snyder’s Justice League) being followed by the cops, then jumpimh off the roof of a tall building into the sea (amongst a sea of …
Continue readingBeckett – The DVDfever Review – John David Washington – Netflix
Beckett begins with the titular lead (John David Washington) and girlfriend April (Alicia Vikander) on their travels through Greece, making up stories about other people they see, whilst living love’s young dream. A car accident, …
Continue readingThe Last Mercenary – The DVDfever Review – Jean-Claude Van Damme – Netflix
The Last Mercenary is a new Jean-Claude Van Damme film which starts off brilliantly, as his son has been captured and Richard Brumére (Van Damme) somehow sneaked in to rescue him, hiding up in the …
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