Ad Astra feels like a weird movie to be watching in 2019, as it’s rather like a road movie, but set in space, and feels a lot more like an indie movie than something mainstream …
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Rambo: Last Blood – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Rambo: Last Blood: Everybody’s favourite one-man killing machine, John Rambo is back. Back for one last time in the final chapter of what I’m sure wasn’t a planned quintology. So given we started with First …
Continue readingDouble Date on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review – British horror comedy
Double Date is a British horror comedy which came out for a limited cinema run in October 2017, but I’m so glad that it’s finally got a Blu-ray and DVD release for reasons I shall …
Continue readingThe Fight – The DVDfever Review – Jessica Hynes
The Fight is the directorial debut of Jessica Hynes (Shaun of the Dead, Spaced, Years And Years). She also takes the lead as Tina, a mother whose life is in turmoil her daughter, Emma (Sennia …
Continue readingLong Shot on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review – Charlize Theron
Long Shot looks like the kind of comedy I’ve seen a zillion times, but I’d heard good things about it, even though 125 minutes does seem way too long for comedy. About 100 minutes should …
Continue readingAmazing Grace on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review – Aretha Franklin
Amazing Grace is not the Aretha Franklin documentary I was expecting, but with this concert film being released in the year after her untimely death, we instead get a concert featuring the lady, plus drummer …
Continue readingUnder The Silver Lake on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Under The Silver Lake surprised me right off the bat with some sharp direction with the camera moving about in directions I wasn’t expecting, and some sounds from the thunderous opening score of the 1991 …
Continue readingFlight Of The Navigator Special Edition on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Flight Of The Navigator shows that only an ’80s movie can begin with a series of dogs catching frisbees in their mouths. And for an ’80s movie, it’s somehow set in 1978, at the South …
Continue readingThe White Crow on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review – Ralph Fiennes
The White Crow, we’re told at the start, defines the title as an idiom used to describe a person who is unusual, extraordinary, not like others, and an outsider… and Rudolf Nureyev (newcomer Oleg Ivenko) …
Continue readingThe Third Wife on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review – Nguyen Phuong Tra My
The Third Wife is what May (Nguyen Phuong Tra My, above) has become to a wealthy landowner in rural Vietnam in the late 19th century. We’d all love to marry someone wealthy, but is there …
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