The Guilty centres around Danish emergency services call operator Asger Holm (Jakob Cedergren, above), who at first comes across as far from understanding when he gets a call from someone who’s taken drugs and is …
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Parents: Vestron Collector’s Series on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review – Randy Quaid
Parents is set in the heart of suburbia where everyone lives in a huge house, and aspires to an affluent lifestyle. However, in moving to a new school, the first thing young Michael Laemle (Bryan …
Continue readingHunter Killer on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Hunter Killer – I can’t say it’s ‘Die Hard on a submarine’, since (a) it’s not, and (b) that was claimed by the so-so Under Siege in 1992. You don’t watch Gerard Butler action films …
Continue readingTwo For Joy – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Daniel Mays
Two For Joy begins with the last day of school for Vi (Emilia Jones, daughter of Aled Jones and she was brilliant opposite Guy Pearce in Brimstone), but life is far from easy for her. …
Continue readingClimax – The DVDfever Review – Gaspar Noé
Climax begins with an opening dance number, to a remix of Cerrone’s Supernature, which turns into an incredibly well-choreographed spin around the dance floor for everyone involved, so yeah, sod The Greatest Dancer on BBC1, …
Continue readingAlita: Battle Angel in IMAX 3D – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Alita: Battle Angel, originally was a manga known as Battle Angel Alita*. Quite why they’ve gone with this change, I don’t know and it’s never been explained, so I can only guess that it’s when …
Continue readingPolar – The DVDfever Netflix Review – Mads Mikkelsen
Polar is based on the Dark Horse graphic novel, to which I was not aware of prior to hearing about this film, but the premise is that when assassins retire at the imposed age of …
Continue readingBlindspotting on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Blindspotting centres around Collin (Daveed Diggs), who has completed a 2-month sentence in jail after what happened when he worked as the bouncer for a bar (which you’ll discover as you watch the film), and …
Continue readingVelvet Buzzsaw – The DVDfever Cinema / Netflix Review – Jake Gyllenhaal
Velvet Buzzsaw looked, from the trailer, like Netflix has knocked it out of the park again, as it teams up Nightcrawler (one of the best films of its year) with its effervescent star Jake Gyllenhaal, …
Continue readingGreen Book – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Viggo Mortensen, Mahershala Ali
Green Book looked from the trailer like a colour-swap version of Driving Miss Daisy, as working-class Italian-American bouncer Tony Vallelonga – aka Tony Lip (Viggo Mortensen) – becomes the driver for African-American classical pianist Don …
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