Eddie The Eagle is a film that the man in question has been looking to make for about 17 years, and looked great from the trailers, but fell strangely fairly flat in the full telling, …
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Sing Street on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Sing Street is the sort of film that has a well-worn tale, but it’s the brilliance in which it all comes together that grabs your attention and rarely lets go. With his rowing parents on …
Continue readingSuicide Squad – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Suicide Squad gets right what Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice got so wrong. Warner Bros thought the way to go was to be all mean and moody and growly for the three weeks it …
Continue readingLondon Has Fallen – The DVDfever Review
London Has Fallen begins with the news that the Prime Minister is dead. For world leaders, it’s a time of great sadness. You could imagine what the reaction would be like on Twitter and Facebook, …
Continue reading10 Cloverfield Lane on DVD – The DVDfever Review
10 Cloverfield Lane: Wow! Well, that’s not a very descriptive review, is it, but this is a film where it’s best to know the bare minimum before you start to watch it, so feel free …
Continue readingJason Bourne – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Jason Bourne is Matt Damon‘s titular hero who gave us ‘Die Hard in a Forgetful Man’s Head‘ in Robert Ludlum‘s Bourne Trilogy, beginning with Doug Liman‘s superb 2002 opener, The Bourne Identity which, even before …
Continue readingPoor Cow on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Poor Cow was Ken Loach‘s first feature-length movie and this is the first time I’ve seen it – another in a long line of films I’ve never got round to seeing until their Blu-ray debut. …
Continue readingAbsolute Beginners: 30th Anniversary Edition on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Absolute Beginners is one of many Blu-ray premieres released, over the past few years, where I completely missed them first time round. This was largely because it wasn’t the sort of thing I was going …
Continue readingStar Trek Beyond – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Star Trek Beyond is the worst title out of the reboots so far as it has no bearing on anything whatsoever and has always felt like a working title, yet is the best of those …
Continue readingPoint Break 2015 on DVD – The DVDfever Review
Point Break 2015 is another of those entities that didn’t need to be remade, very much like Dad’s Army and Ghostbusters as well as countless others over the recent past. Charisma-vacuum Luke Bracey does his …
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