Avengers: Infinity War is the big all-in CRASH!BASH!SMASH! superhero movie where they all get together in a handful of big fights, in all manner of places, all trying to stop genocidal maniac Thanos from aquiring …
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Rampage – Does It Suck? – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Rampage is one of those films I was intially in two minds about seeing. I was caught in the middle of “Well, if I see it, I may as well do so on the big …
Continue readingIsle Of Dogs – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Woof! Woof!
Isle of Dogs is the colloquial term given to Trash Island, a place where all the Japanese non-recycled rubbish goes to, just outside of the country. Following a huge showdown between all the dogs and …
Continue readingReady Player One – GAME OVER! – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Ready Player One is set in Columbus, Ohio, in the year 2045, where Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan) lives in the Stacks (high-rise caravan slums, basically) and he dreams of a life out of there, like …
Continue readingTomb Raider 2018 – “No” – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Tomb Raider 2018 is Lara Croft reborn in the guise of the 2013 reboot game, of which I was not a big fan, unlike the 1996 original and a number of its sequels. I seemed …
Continue readingLady Bird – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Lady Bird is another film selected for potential BAFTA and Oscar glory, yet is also another film that’s less than the sum of its parts, which is a shame, as Saoirse Ronan is superb in …
Continue readingThe Shape Of Water – The DVDfever Cinema Review
The Shape Of Water centres around a weird water-dwelling creature which, on first encounter, almost thuds through the container it’s within, giving every unspecting Tom, Dick or Harriet a fright. Elisa Esposito (Sally Hawkins) and …
Continue readingLies We Tell – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Gabriel Byrne
Lies We Tell starts off really well, even though I wasn’t aiming for poetry in my first line. Gabriel Byrne takes the lead as Donald, the driver to rich old man Demi (Harvey Keitel), who …
Continue readingThe Post – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Pentagon Papers Pish
The Post centres around US newspaper The Washington Post, and revealing deep government secrets about the Vietnam War, courtesy of military analyst Daniel Ellsberg (Matthew Rhys) who’s travelled to the country in question, in 1966, …
Continue readingDarkest Hour – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Good Gary. Film Failure
Darkest Hour gives Gary Oldman a turn as Prime Minister Winston Churchill, after Brian Cox’s Churchill last year, but with Oldman as the man at the time of the Dunkirk evacuations, so incredibly portrayed last …
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