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 …
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Fight 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 …
Continue readingLisa Frankenstein – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Kathryn Newton
Lisa Frankenstein opens with the unforunately named Lisa Swallows (Kathryn Newton – Ant-Man And The Wasp: Quantumania) being ditzy, talking to a statue in the park, justifying this to her friends, “No-one should be forgotten“, …
Continue readingDamsel – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Millie Bobby Brown
Damsel opens with a brief monologue from our heroine, Elodie (Millie Bobby Brown):“There are many stories of chivalry, where the heroic knight saves the damsel in distress… This is NOT one of them.” We’re somewhere …
Continue readingDune Part Two in 1.43:1 IMAX – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya
Dune Part Two is out now in cinemas, and like with the 2021’s first part, as I watched this four-month delayed sequel, I had absolutely no idea what was going on, other than a basic …
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