Ricky Stanicky begins as three childhood friends play a prank on Halloween, 1999, partly setting fire to a house, owned by individuals who never give out sweets. Of course, nothing ever goes to plan, but …
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Bob Marley: One Love – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Kingsley Ben-Adir
Bob Marley: One Love doesn’t chart the entire reggae legend’s career, but mainly, just two years of his life, from 1976, when he wanted to set up a Jamaican peace concert, “Smile Jamaica”, to combat …
Continue readingThe Iron Claw – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Zac Efron
The Iron Claw is a film that looked great from the trailer, as it tells the real-life tale of the Von Erich wrestling family, and its trademark ‘iron claw’ grip-to-the-face move, first brought in by …
Continue readingMadame Web – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Dakota Johnson
Madame Web limps off in the Peruvian jungle, 1973, where pregnant mum-to-be Constance Webb (Kerry Bishé) is taking pictures of a spider web inhabited by a super-spider with rare healing properties, alongside her other half, …
Continue readingThe Zone of Interest – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Sandra Hüller
The Zone of Interest is probably one of the most bizarre films I’ll ever see, as we see commandant Rudolf Höss (Christian Friedel) going about his daily tasks, leaving the house each morning to go …
Continue readingArgylle – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Bryce Dallas Howard, Sam Rockwell
Argylle opens with pop star Dual Lips, as master criminal Lagrange, first getting together with our titular hero, played by Henry Cavill – even though thefirst time I saw the trailer, I thought it was …
Continue readingThe Bricklayer – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Aaron Eckhart
The Bricklayer. Last month, it was The Beekeeper. Whoever next? The Butcher? The Baker? The Candlestick Maker? Anyhoo, the attempted plot in this is that someone called Popov has popped off… having been killed off …
Continue readingAmerican Fiction – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Jeffrey Wright
American Fiction centres around Monk – full name Thelonious Ellison, played by Jeffrey Wright (Asteroid City), a professor who upsets one of his students by talking about a work with a contraversial title, and how …
Continue readingMigration 3D – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Kumail Nanjiani, Elizabeth Banks
Migration 3D: Yes, there are still some 3D films around, even if the only way I’m going to get value from that part of my Odeon LimitlessPlus subscription is to sit through a cacophony of …
Continue readingAll of Us Strangers – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Andrew Scott, Paul Mescal
All of Us Strangers opens with Adam (Andrew Scott – Spectre), a writer who adapts film scripts, working late in his apartment, in a largely empty building, since for whatever reason, there’s hardly anybody living …
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