Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire proves that no matter how much you flog a dead horse, the more it’ll continue to get up. It’s probably a ghost at this point… Anyhoo, this fifth film that bears the …
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The Beautiful Game – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Bill Nighy
The Beautiful Game is obviously a football movie, but this one in particular is set around the Homeless World Cup, an event which I hadn’t heard of before, but have now learned this is actually …
Continue readingThe Lyricist Wannabe – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Suet-Ying Chung
The Lyricist Wannabe is a new Cantonese Chinese film which centres around Law Wing Sze (Suet-Ying Chung, above-right) with the titular dilemma in a film which takes place over six years, from 2006 onwards – …
Continue readingThe New Boy – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Cate Blanchett
The New Boy doesn’t specify the period in which it’s set, but over time, it becomes clear it’s around 1940, with the World War II references. It’s also a time when those in the Australian …
Continue readingFight Club 25th Anniversary – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Brad Pitt
Fight Club is 25 years old in 2024, and I went to see it, but, I’m sorry, I can’t talk about it. Fight Club is in cinemas now, and is available on Blu-ray and DVD. …
Continue readingDrive-Away Dolls – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Margaret Qualley, Geraldine Viswanathan
Drive-Away Dolls sounds like the title of a Thelma And Louise-style movie, but it’s not quite that. First-up – and this must be an American term as I haven’t come across it, “Drive-away” means to …
Continue readingRoad House (2024) – The DVDfever Review – Amazon Prime Video – Jake Gyllenhaal
Road House (2024) comes 35 years after the original, starring the late, great Patrick Swayze, with Jake Gyllenhaal taking the role of human punchbag Dalton. It’s been some time since I saw the original, and …
Continue readingCOPA 71 – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Football documentary
COPA 71 is a new documentary about the 1971 Women’s World Cup, and you may ask yourself, as I haven’t watched football since I was a kid, and thus have zero interest in the modern …
Continue readingImaginary – The DVDfever Cinema Review – DeWanda Wise
Imaginary is the latest waste of celluloid from Blumhouse – as if Five Nights At Freddy’s wasn’t bad enough, this one led by aspiring mother Jessica (DeWanda Wise – Jurassic World: Dominion), who has dreams …
Continue readingWicked Little Letters – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Jessie Buckley, Olivia Colman
Wicked Little Letters is exactly what most of the townsfolk of Littlehampton are receiving, in 1920, full of profanity I can’t repeat here, and it all appears to be coming from the pen of uncouth …
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