BFI London Film Festival 2022 Part 1 by Helen M Jerome: What a welcome, bumper year for cinema, getting back on its feet, and allowing cinephiles to immerse themselves in big film festivals again. The …
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The Silent Twins – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Letitia Wright, Tamara Lawrance
The Silent Twins centres around two identical sisters – June (Letitia Wright – I Am Danielle) and Jennifer Gibbons (Tamara Lawrance – The Long Song) – and despite being silent to everyone else, they’ll speak …
Continue readingViolent Night – The DVDfever Cinema Review – David Harbour
Violent Night… Rowdy night? Either way, it’s Christmas Eve, and Santa Claus (David Harbour – Extraction) is drunk. He’s the real Santa, even though no-one believes he is… After doing the job many times over, …
Continue readingShe Said – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Carey Mulligan, Zoe Kazan
She Said begins in Ireland, 1992, when a young actress goes to work on a film set on a beach… and is then seen running away, scared and in floods of tears. The film, in …
Continue readingLondon Korean Film Festival 2022 by Helen M Jerome – The DVDfever Review
London Korean Film Festival 2022: Now back to being fully and resoundingly in-person, the London Korean Film Festival can build on its reputation as a highlight of the cinematic year. Wonderfully curated to within an …
Continue readingThe Menu – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Ralph Fiennes, Anya Taylor-Joy
The Menu is a new dark comedy set in a restaurant where the Chef, played by Ralph Fiennes (The Dig), is more Gordon Ramsay than Gordon Ramsay! Tyler (Nicholas Hoult – Those Who Wish Me …
Continue readingBlack Panther 2: Wakanda Forever – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Letitia Wright
Black Panther 2: Panth Harder… I mean, Black Panther 2: Wakanda Forever. It’s a bit of a lazy subtitle, since it’s just their occasional chant, but presumably they wanted to put that in to show …
Continue readingLiving – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Bill Nighy, Aimee Lou Wood
Living centres around a man known only by his surname for the majority of the film, Williams, played by Bill Nighy (The World’s End), and set in 1953, where every businessman wears bowler hats, all …
Continue readingBlack Adam – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Dwayne Johnson
Black Adam… or apparently, Teth Adam – God knows why. I never look into the background lore for any superhero characters before I see a film, as I expect the movie to give me the …
Continue readingThe Banshees of Inisherin – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson
The Banshees of Inisherin is a film which grabbed me from the original trailer, but which has a very bizarre premise. Pádraic Súilleabháin (Colin Farrell – Thirteen Lives) and Colm Doherty (Brendan Gleeson – Edge …
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