The Nice Guys is another buddy-buddy action movie where the trailer promised a cracking run of hilarious gags as Jackson Healy (Russell Crowe) – who always lets his fists do the talking (usually his right …
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Youth on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Youth begins with probably the best cover version of You’ve Got The Love I’ve ever heard, this one coming from The Retrosettes Sister Band. Unfortunately, that’s one of the best things about this film which …
Continue readingRams on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Rams centres around two sheep herder brothers – Gummi (Sigurður Sigurjónsson) and Kiddi (Theodór Júlíusson), a film based on a story the director’s father told him about two men who fought over a woman, and …
Continue readingVictoria on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Victoria, played by Laia Costa, is a Spanish woman in her twenties who’s recently moved to Berlin, working in a cafe by day and having a great night in a club at the time when …
Continue readingThe Secret: 2015 Remastered Version – The DVDfever Cinema Review
The Secret shows that while school can be a fairly isolating place at the best of times – and we’ve all been there, some things just aren’t panning out the way an average school day …
Continue readingFive Pillars on DVD – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Five Pillars begins just as Darren (Tom Bott) has returned from Afghanistan, struggling to fit in now he’s back on Civvy Street, especially with the UK deep in recession. Even three years on from when …
Continue readingThe 5th Wave on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
The 5th Wave is another of those ‘end of the world’ sci-fi dramas, this being at the behest of aliens, referred to as “The Others”, but I do like all of this sort of nonsense. …
Continue readingDirty Grandpa: Extended Edition on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Dirty Grandpa sets its stall out early, naming Robert De Niro‘s character Dick. His wife has just died and he needs a release, and that involves attempting to sleep with hot college girls, with Lenore …
Continue readingX-Men: Apocalypse – The DVDfever Cinema Review
X-Men: Apocalypse begins back in Ancient Egypt, around 3600 BCE (Before Common Era – I had to look that up. I presume it means, before Lonnie Rashid Lynn Jr, aka the rapper known as Common, …
Continue readingOrthodox on DVD – The DVDfever Review
Orthodox centres around Stephen Graham as Benjamin, a boxer-turned-butcher who’s still forced to fight because money is tight. The recession has hit his family business hard, so in order to make ends meet, long-time friend …
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