Vice opens on Sept 11th, 2001, as Dick Cheney (Christian Bale, above) is rushed into the Presidential Emergency Operations Centre, so he’s kept out of harm’s way, and then goes back to the start, in …
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Speed Kills on DVD – The DVDfever Review – John Travolta
Speed Kills joins Backtrace in a January UK premiere which stars Matthew Modine in a film which has received stinking ratings on IMDB, but then so did Allure and Dark Crimes, and both of those …
Continue readingA Simple Favour on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
A Simple Favour (or A Simple Favor for those who don’t know how to spell) is one of those films for when I want to try and prove myself wrong, and since I’ll want to …
Continue readingKing Of Thieves on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
King Of Thieves is strange in its existence. 2017 brought us The Hatton Garden Job, a movie about the titular bank heist where old men robbed the bank over the Easter weekend of 2015, the …
Continue readingThe Nun (2018) on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
The Nun is set both before the Conjuring movies (which I have seen) and the Annabelle movies (which I haven’t), but as every continuation of strangely successful movies comes along, they’re always prequels so that’ll …
Continue readingDistorted – The DVDfever Review – John Cusack, Christina Ricci
Distorted is one of those films with lots of weird stuff going on to the point where as soon as the film begins, Lauren (Christina Ricci) is a gibbering wreck for reasons not yet explained, …
Continue readingBacktrace on DVD – The DVDfever Review – Sylvester Stallone
Backtrace opens with a deal going sour over money, and idiots pulling guns on each other. Every now and again, I lower my expectations distinctly for straight-to-DVD release like this. Backtrace. They’re not aiming for …
Continue readingThe 12th Man – The DVDfever Review – Jonathan Rhys Meyers
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 …
Continue readingAlpha 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 …
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