The Starling centres around Lilly Maynard (Melissa McCarthy – Nine Perfect Strangers) and husband, Jack (Chris O’Dowd), who welcome baby Katie into their life. After the opening credits, however, we see Jack is in a …
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The Guilty (2021) – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Jake Gyllenhaal
The Guilty (2021) is a remake of the 2018 Danish real-time thriller which was very good, but the action moves to California, where once on-the-beat cop Joe Baylor (Jake Gyllenhaal – Nightcrawler) has been demoted …
Continue readingBirds of Paradise – The DVDfever Review – Amazon Prime – Diana Silvers
Birds of Paradise centres around a ballet dance-off contest against professional dancers, where the prize is join the Opéra national de Paris, the two leads – Kate (Diana Silvers) and Marine (Kristine Froseth) – having …
Continue readingThe Mad Women’s Ball – The DVDfever Review – Amazon Prime Video – Mélanie Laurent
The Mad Women’s Ball is a pet project for Mélanie Laurent (The Concert, Oxygen), who has directed and written the screenplay for this, based on a novel by Victoria Mas and set in 1885, in …
Continue readingMalignant – The DVDfever Review – Annabelle Wallis, James Wan
Malignant begins in 1993, where we learn Gabriel is some weird entity who kills without remorse and can broadcast his thoughts, following the recorded thoughts of Dr Florence Weaver (good to see Jacqueline McKenzie onscreen, …
Continue readingKate – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Mary Elizabeth Winstead
Kate is a professional assassin, played by Mary Elizabeth Winstead (10 Cloverfield Lane, Birds Of Prey). She’s not exactly Nikita, but her latest target was a father walking with his daughter – which, to her, …
Continue readingCinderella 2021 – The DVDfever Review – Amazon Prime Video – Camila Cabello
Cinderella 2021: Yes, it’s time for another version of the classic fairy tale, and this time, it’s a musical. Now, I’m not the biggest fan of musicals, and I’m certainly not a fan of James …
Continue readingReminiscence – The DVDfever Review – Hugh Jackman, Rebecca Ferguson
Reminiscence begins with some early so-called “man-made global warming” scaremongering by making Miami look flooded, and everyone’s nocturnal to “escape the heat of the sun”. Meanwhile, everyone’s happy to walk through deep – and easily-avoided …
Continue readingSweet Girl – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Jason Momoa, Isabela Merced
Sweet Girl begins with aggrieved Ray Cooper (Jason Momoa – Zack Snyder’s Justice League) being followed by the cops, then jumpimh off the roof of a tall building into the sea (amongst a sea of …
Continue readingAnchorman 2: The Legend Continues – The DVDfever Review
Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues is the sequel to Anchorman, the satirical comedy which irst premiered in the USA on July 9th 2004. The first instalment was a success with a box office gross earnings …
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