Halloween Kills follows on from Halloween (2018), which I only got round to watching about two days before this sequel, but Michael Myers’ return – seemingly, lazily ignoring every sequel since (given that Myers has …
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Malignant – The DVDfever Review – Annabelle Wallis, James Wan
Malignant begins in 1993, where we learn Gabriel is some weird entity who kills without remorse and can broadcast his thoughts, following the recorded thoughts of Dr Florence Weaver (good to see Jacqueline McKenzie onscreen, …
Continue readingReminiscence – The DVDfever Review – Hugh Jackman, Rebecca Ferguson
Reminiscence begins with some early so-called “man-made global warming” scaremongering by making Miami look flooded, and everyone’s nocturnal to “escape the heat of the sun”. Meanwhile, everyone’s happy to walk through deep – and easily-avoided …
Continue readingThe Courier – The DVDfever Review – Benedict Cumberbatch
The Courier begins on August 12th, 1960, a time for Nikita Khrushchev, and following a timeline which leads into and past the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. Col. Oleg Vladimirovich Penkovsky (Merab Ninidze), aka Codename: Ironbark, …
Continue readingThe Suicide Squad – The DVDfever Review – Margot Robbie, Idris Elba
The Suicide Squad finally comes to cinemas and HBO Max, and under the writer/directorship of James Gunn (Guardians Of The Galaxy 2), even after some very questionable tweets from 2008/09 came to light in 2018. …
Continue readingFast and Furious 9 – The DVDfever Review – Vin Diesel, John Cena
Fast and Furious 9‘s plot can be summed up in one sentence. Struggling to think of a reason to make another Fast and Furious film, the scriptwriters cobble together some crap about Dominic Toretto (Vin …
Continue readingThe Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Ryan Reynolds
The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard comes to cinemas just as everything is confirmed as staying under lock and key for another few weeks. I was disappointed with the first film because while it had an outstanding …
Continue readingDream Horse – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Toni Collette, Damian Lewis
Dream Horse centres around bored checkout operator Jan (Toni Collette – Stowaway), who dreams of owning and breeding a horse, and with the help of crowdfunding from her neighbours, she’ll manage it, but can she …
Continue readingA Quiet Place Part II – The DVDfever Review – Emily Blunt, John Krasinski
A Quiet Place Part II finally comes to cinemas almost 15 months after the intended release date of March 18th 2020. By that point in the COVID19 proceedings, events started to accelerate in the UK …
Continue readingElyse – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Anthony Hopkins, Lisa Pepper
Elyse is a new drama, directed by Anthony Hopkins‘ missus, Stella Hopkins, and filmed partially in black and white, for example with the opening scene highlighing the red on a vase of roses, and a …
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