Extraction is something that the dental hospital will soon be performing on a dodgy tooth on the upper-left section of my mouth, but you don’t need to know that right now. In this film of …
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Dope on DVD – The DVDfever Review
Dope begins by telling us the title can be described in three ways – something that’s excellent, someone who is an idiot, or slang for recreational and illegal drugs. Malcolm (Shameik Moore) is a typical …
Continue readingRichard Herring: Lord Of The Dance Settee on DVD – The DVDfever Review
Lord Of The Dance Settee is Richard Herring’s eleventh stand-up show and his latest tour DVD and early on there was a moment I remembered from “This Morning With Richard Not Judy” (TMWRNJ!) as he …
Continue readingThe Physician on DVD – The DVDfever Review
The Physician is set in the 11th Century, at a time when modern day hospitals are way off and the great unwashed have to rely on travelling barbes with poor knowledge. Meanwhile, an NHS, of …
Continue readingGirlhood on DVD – The DVDfever Review
Girlhood tells the coming-of-age tale of Marieme (Karidja Touré, below-right), a 16-year-old girl in a rough Parisian neighbourhood still trying to find where she belongs in the pecking order of life. In looking after her …
Continue readingWhite God on DVD – The DVDfever Review
White God places young Lili (Zsófia Psotta) in the worst place possible – stuck right inbetween two warring, divorced parents. Her mother (Lili Horváth) is working away for the next three months so she’ll have …
Continue readingMommy on DVD – The DVDfever Review
Mommy is a film I wanted to see from the first moment I saw a clip of it as it had a certain something about it, and I was pleased to learn that certain something …
Continue readingAccidental Love on DVD – The DVDfever Review
Accidental Love is a comedy I was drawn to given the presence of the always-reliable Jake Gyllenhaal and the very athletic Mrs Timberlake, aka Jessica Biel. The latter stars as Alice, a waitress who ends …
Continue readingSociety: Limited Edition on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Society was the first ever legal 18-certificate film I saw at the cinema, on my 18th birthday in fact, April 14th 1990, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. It was a midnight screening, so technically it …
Continue readingThe Long Good Friday Special Edition on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
The Long Good Friday is a film which I didn’t really ‘get’ when I was younger. i would’ve been in my teens when I first saw it. The late, great Bob Hoskins plays Harold Shand, …
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