Rogue City (aka Bronx) begins with a blank screen as we hear the audio of a man killing two people in a house while the credits roll. Soon after, as vision is presented to us, …
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His House – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Matt Smith
His House centres around Bol Majur (Sope Dirisu – Black Mirror: Nosedive) and his wife, Rial (Wunmi Mosaku – Temple), who come to the UK after escaping South Sudan in a boat which collapses in …
Continue readingRebecca – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Lily James, Armie Hammer
Rebecca is a new version of the 1940s Hitchcock movie (okay, technically, the 1938 Daphne du Maurier novel), and I wouldn’t have thought of Ben Wheatley as someone making a remake of such a film, …
Continue readingThe Trial of the Chicago 7 – The DVDfever Review – Eddie Redmayne
The Trial of the Chicago 7 is based on the same situation which also spawned the 1987 TV movie, Conspiracy: The Trial of the Chicago 8… so, who’s the 8th individual? I’ll get to that. …
Continue readingThe Forty-Year-Old Version – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Radha Blank
The Forty-Year-Old Version sees actress/writer Radha Blank playing a version of herself as a playwright – who had success ten years earlier with the ’30 Under 30′ program for some of the brightest young stars …
Continue readingDavid Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet – The DVDfever Review
David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet comes from the 94-year-old man who’s spent his entire working life travelling all around the world, and now berates us all for also wanting to see it, by …
Continue readingEnola Holmes – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Millie Bobbie Brown
Enola Holmes is the female offspring of the Sherlock family, but very tomboyish with it, despite the long hair. The film opens with a brief run-through her early life, telling us how “Enola spelt backwards …
Continue readingThe Devil All the Time – The DVDfever Review – Robert Pattinson, Tom Holland – Netflix
The Devil All the Time centres around a number of characters, beginning with Willard Russell (Bill Skarsgård – IT Chapter One, IT Chapter Two), who tells his son, Arvin (Michael Banks Repeta), how he “fought …
Continue readingCuties (aka Mignonnes) – The DVDfever Review – Netflix contraversial twerking teen drama
Cuties is a forthcoming movie on Netflix which has attracted a great deal of controversy ever since the trailer appeared. Amy (Fathia Youssouf Abdillahi) is a young 11-year-old Senegalese girl who we see going to …
Continue readingThe Old Guard – The DVDfever Review – Charlize Theron – Netflix
The Old Guard is a new Netflix action movie which proves that death is no longer the career setback it used to be. Andy (Charlize Theron) is one of a rag-tag bunch of futuristic A-Team-style …
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