The Batman is yet another reboot for one of DC Comics’ major characters, and when director Matt Reeves took it on, I did wonder whether it was necessary, since it’s only 10 years since Christopher …
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Moonfall IMAX – The DVDfever Review – Halle Berry, Patrick Wilson
Moonfall sees director Roland Emmerich back on the big screen, blowing stuff up, as he has done many times over with the likes of Midway, Independence Day and 2012. This outing first goes back to …
Continue readingBFI London Film Festival 2021 Part 2 by Helen M Jerome – The DVDfever Review
BFI London Film Festival 2021 Part 2: Here we go. As promised, the follow-up to the first part of our extensive overview of LFF 2021 focuses on some outstanding directorial debuts, documentaries and a couple …
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BFI London Film Festival 2021 Part 1: Back to life. Back to normality. Well, almost. After a 90 per cent online festival in 2020, in 2021 the BFI opted to make it almost totally in-person, …
Continue readingLondon Korean Film Festival 2021 Review by Helen M Jerome
London Korean Film Festival 2021 Review by Helen M Jerome: To paraphrase Samuel Johnson, if you’re tired of Korean film, you’re tired of life… such is its breadth and quality. Positioned in its own sweet …
Continue readingDune Part One in 1.43:1 IMAX – The DVDfever Review – Zendaya, Timothée Chalamet
Dune Part One begins with the declaration, “Dreams are messages from the deep”. And this was originally just entitled ‘Dune‘, like the novel, but on the Tuesday after its released, Warner Bros confirmed that this …
Continue readingLondon Korean Film Festival 2021 Preview by Helen M Jerome
London Korean Film Festival 2021 Preview: How time flies! It’s that time again, for the highly-anticipated London Korean Film Festival, and incredibly the 16th year it’s been going. In that time it’s evolved from a …
Continue readingHalloween Kills (and Halloween 2018) – The DVDfever Review – Jamie Lee Curtis
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 …
Continue readingMalignant – 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 …
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