The 12th Man takes place in 1943 during World War II, at a time when Hitler had established “Festung Norwegen” (Fortress Norway), aka building heavy defences and fortification as they occupied Norway, thus Operation Martin …
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Alpha Director’s Cut on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review – Kodi Smit-McPhee
Alpha Director’s Cut is out now and, before watching this, and upon realising in the menus, I didn’t even know there was a Director’s Cut version of this film as it’s not listed on the …
Continue readingYardie on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review – Idris Elba
Yardie starts off with gang violence in Kingston, Jamaica, and the wars between the Tappa and Spicer gangs, with D – aka Dennis (Aml Ameen) narrating the story as he sees his friends cut down …
Continue readingBros: After The Screaming Stops – The DVDfever Review
Bros: After The Screaming Stops brings the twin brothers back together to perform at the O2 in Wembley, 28 years after they first performed at Wembley. But that’s nothing! I was at one of their …
Continue readingBFI 62nd London Film Festival Part 2 Review by Helen M Jerome
BFI 62nd London Film Festival Part 2: Having delivered our verdict on the biggest, splashiest releases from the 2018 London Film Festival in Part 1 of our annual round-up, in Part 2 we now turn …
Continue readingHappy New Year, Colin Burstead – The DVDfever Review
Happy New Year, Colin Burstead comes from Ben Wheatley who usually provides us rather off-the-wall movies such as Free Fire, Sightseers and A Field In England, so there’s always something going on, it’s almost always …
Continue readingBFI 62nd London Film Festival Part 1 Review by Helen M Jerome
BFI 62nd London Film Festival Part 1: Hold onto your hats. We are mixing up our London Film Festival coverage this year, which also gives us the chance to pick out our favourites. Our extensive …
Continue readingFifty Shades Freed Extended Edition – The DVDfever Review
Fifty Shades Freed has one saving grace – it’s the shortest of the trilogy, clocking in at 110 minutes in its (ahem) extended version. Yes, they haven’t even given it a fancy name this time, …
Continue readingMary Poppins Returns – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Is it Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious?
Mary Poppins Returns is set 20 years after the 1964 original, and this time, the Banks are having more problems – especially with their bank, since while Michael Banks (Ben Whishaw) lives in the family …
Continue readingThe House That Jack Built – Sick! Depraved! Brilliant! – The DVDfever Cinema Review
The House That Jack Built is a film for which I knew absolutely nothing when I first saw the trailer. Seemed like a fairly straight-forward drama at first, with Matt Dillon reluctantly pulling over for …
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