Madame Web limps off in the Peruvian jungle, 1973, where pregnant mum-to-be Constance Webb (Kerry Bishé) is taking pictures of a spider web inhabited by a super-spider with rare healing properties, alongside her other half, …
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The Zone of Interest – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Sandra Hüller
The Zone of Interest is probably one of the most bizarre films I’ll ever see, as we see commandant Rudolf Höss (Christian Friedel) going about his daily tasks, leaving the house each morning to go …
Continue readingArgylle – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Bryce Dallas Howard, Sam Rockwell
Argylle opens with pop star Dual Lips, as master criminal Lagrange, first getting together with our titular hero, played by Henry Cavill – even though thefirst time I saw the trailer, I thought it was …
Continue readingAmerican Fiction – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Jeffrey Wright
American Fiction centres around Monk – full name Thelonious Ellison, played by Jeffrey Wright (Asteroid City), a professor who upsets one of his students by talking about a work with a contraversial title, and how …
Continue readingMigration 3D – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Kumail Nanjiani, Elizabeth Banks
Migration 3D: Yes, there are still some 3D films around, even if the only way I’m going to get value from that part of my Odeon LimitlessPlus subscription is to sit through a cacophony of …
Continue readingAll of Us Strangers – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Andrew Scott, Paul Mescal
All of Us Strangers opens with Adam (Andrew Scott – Spectre), a writer who adapts film scripts, working late in his apartment, in a largely empty building, since for whatever reason, there’s hardly anybody living …
Continue readingJackdaw – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Jenna Coleman
Jackdaw shows that if I thought Baghead was going to be the low point of the movie week, this film stopped me and shouted, “Hold my beer!” Someone’s clearly been watching Titanic too much, since …
Continue readingBaghead – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Freya Allan, Peter Mullan
Baghead – what a name for a movie! Sounds like some sort of Scouse slur. The film opens with Owen Lark (Peter Mullan, chewing scenery, as usual), making one of those movie “If you’re watching …
Continue readingMean Girls – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Angourie Rice (+ POST-CREDIT SCENE BREAKDOWN)
Mean Girls is a musical remake of a story about being popular and hot, originally placing Lindsay Lohan in the lead role of 16-year-old Cady Heron, who goes from being home-schooled in Africa to having …
Continue readingThe End We Start From – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Jodie Comer
The End We Start From felt like we were going to get beaten over the head with ‘climate change’ propaganda, telling us that big storms are happening because someone in your street bought a ‘gas …
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