Lost In London was fascinating from the trailer, since it’s a film that was shot in just one-take. It reminded me of the superb 2015’s Victoria, starring Laia Costa, which did the same thing, although …
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Slaughterhouse Rulez on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Slaughterhouse Rulez comes across as being set at an old-time grammar boarding school, seemingly as anarchic as a St Trinians movie, but with the inference that not all of the pupils – at this mixed …
Continue readingClass Of 1999: Vestron Collector’s Series on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review – Malcolm McDowell
Class of 1999 takes place in a time where schools are overrun with violence, leading to no-go areas which are so gang-controlled that even the police won’t enter, so it’s a bit like Escape From …
Continue readingLeaving Neverland – The DVDfever Review – Michael Jackson documentary
Leaving Neverland, aka Leaving Neverland: Michael Jackson and Me tells us what we’ve all known for years: Michael Jackson sexually-abused children. Or do you think he’s innocent, and that he was the victim in all …
Continue readingDepartures (aka Then Came You) – The DVDfever Review – Maisie Williams
Departures (also known as Then Came You, the title which is actually listed on IMDB) centres around Calvin (Asa Butterfield – Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children), a hypochrondric young man, working as a baggage …
Continue readingThree Identical Strangers – The DVDfever Review
Three Identical Strangers begins with the story of Bobby Shafran, who starts college in 1980, at the age of 19, and as soon as he arrived, he’s mistaken for someone called Eddy, which turned out …
Continue readingFreak Show – The DVDfever Review – Alex Lawther
Freak Show centres around teenager Billy Bloom (Alex Lawther – Ghost Stories), who dares to be different. He wants to cross-dress and gets noticed when he goes to school as Boy George. You can imagine …
Continue readingThe Guilty – The DVDfever Review – Jakob Cedergren
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 …
Continue readingParents: 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 …
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