Jackdaw shows that if I thought Baghead was going to be the low point of the movie week, this film stopped me and shouted, “Hold my beer!” Someone’s clearly been watching Titanic too much, since …
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Baghead – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Freya Allan, Peter Mullan
Baghead – what a name for a movie! Sounds like some sort of Scouse slur. The film opens with Owen Lark (Peter Mullan, chewing scenery, as usual), making one of those movie “If you’re watching …
Continue readingThe Holdovers – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Paul Giamatti
The Holdovers feels rather like a 1970s version of The Breakfast Club, in part, since out of all the teachers at Barton Academy, its classics professor, Paul Hunham (Paul Giamatti – Love And Mercy), draws …
Continue readingMean Girls – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Angourie Rice (+ POST-CREDIT SCENE BREAKDOWN)
Mean Girls is a musical remake of a story about being popular and hot, originally placing Lindsay Lohan in the lead role of 16-year-old Cady Heron, who goes from being home-schooled in Africa to having …
Continue readingThe End We Start From – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Jodie Comer
The End We Start From felt like we were going to get beaten over the head with ‘climate change’ propaganda, telling us that big storms are happening because someone in your street bought a ‘gas …
Continue readingFerrari – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Adam Driver, Penélope Cruz
Ferrari is based on the life of the former racer with the first name Enzo, and the book subtitled “The Man, The Cars, The Races, The Machine” – all of which would rather have made …
Continue readingPoor Things (Dolby Screen) – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Emma Stone
Poor Things is very much a Frankenstein fantasy tale, where Dr. Godwin Baxter (Willem Dafoe – The Boy and the Heron) performs autopsies to his student class, whilst also having a freakish appearance because he …
Continue readingNight Swim – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Wyatt Russell, Kerry Condon
Night Swim is a new horror movie which felt more like ‘Light Swim’ for reasons I’ll explain later on, but first up, the plot… In the summer 1992, a young girl is taken from her …
Continue readingRole Play – The DVDfever Review – Amazon Prime Video – Kaley Cuoco
Role Play is a highly-improbable comedy about a Suzie Homemaker-type – Kaley Cuoco (A Million Ways To Die In The West) as Emma Brackett – who’s kept a long-term secret from her husband, Dave (David …
Continue readingThe Boy and the Heron in IMAX – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Hayao Miyazaki
The Boy and the Heron shows that however incredible a Japanese anime looks, the plot can sometimes leave me completely befuddled, to the point where I’m not enjoying it as much as I thought I …
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