Skip to content
Rare Beasts marks Billie Piper‘s (Collateral, I Hate Suzie) directorial debut, beginning with her – as Mandy – on a date with Pete (Leo Bill) who, amongst other things, states he finds women intolerable, but …
Continue reading
Category: Cinema films
The Eight Hundred in IMAX – The DVDfever Review – Blu-ray and DVD out now!
The Eight Hundred is now out on Blu-ray and DVD. Further down below, you’ll see my look at the extras and presentation of the Blu-ray. The number in the title is the number of Chinese …
Continue reading
Those Who Wish Me Dead – The DVDfever Review – Angelina Jolie
Those Who Wish Me Dead sees a couple of men from the gas company – Jack (Aidan Gillen – Dave Allen At Peace) and Patrick (Nicholas Hoult – The Great) – off to fix a …
Continue reading
Undergods – The DVDfever Review – Kate Dickie, Burn Gorman
Undergods is one of those films set in a dystopian future, in a world displayed in muted colours, and surrounded by fog as if everything’s about to end, and an environment which makes George Orwell’s …
Continue reading
Mortal Kombat 2021 – The DVDfever Review – Jessica McNamee – HBO Max
Mortal Kombat 2021… Punch. Kick. Punch. Kick. Punch. Kick. Good guy kills bad guy. Bad guy kills good guy. There’s a sulky teenager. There’s a fatality with a heart being ripped out. There’s a macho …
Continue reading
BFI Flare Festival 2021 – The DVDfever Review by Helen M Jerome
BFI Flare Festival 2021 by Helen M Jerome: I’ve attended the main BFI London Film Festival in person – and virtually – for a couple of decades, but this is the very first time I’ve …
Continue reading
Godzilla Vs Kong – The DVDfever Review – Millie Bobby Brown
Godzilla Vs Kong is the fourth film in this series following the awful, rebooted 2014 Godzilla movie, 2017’s reasonable Kong: Skull Island, and 2019’s meh Godzilla: King of the Monsters. On the plus side, at …
Continue reading
Tom and Jerry: The Movie – The DVDfever Review – Chloë Grace Moretz
Tom and Jerry: The Movie: I grew up with a big love for this cat-and-mouse pairing in cartoons back in the ’80s, some of which were even originally made in 2.55:1 Cinemascope, but badly cropped …
Continue reading
Judas and the Black Messiah – The DVDfever Review – Daniel Kaluuya, LaKeith Stanfield
Judas and the Black Messiah begins in Chicago, 1968, with criminal Bill O’Neal (LaKeith Stanfield – Uncut Gems, Death Note) pretending to work for the FBI so he can walk into a bar and arrest …
Continue reading
The Father – The DVDfever Review – Anthony Hopkins, Olivia Colman
The Father centres around Anthony Hopkins who plays Anthony, a man in his advancing years who still feels he can live in his flat unaided, yet is in a constant state of denial that he …
Continue reading