Doctor Sleep is one reason why I don’t watch so many films at the cinema, these days. As well as the fact that most of the more interesting fare just doesn’t get the space on …
Continue reading
Category: Movies
Sorry We Missed You on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review – Ken Loach
Sorry We Missed You is the latest movie from Ken Loach to shine a much-needed spotlight on the problems that blight today’s society, as did 2016’s I, Daniel Blake. Similarly, he appeared on Question Time …
Continue reading
Escape from Pretoria – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Daniel Radcliffe
Escape from Pretoria is the South African Prison Break! Set in 1979, the film begins with freedom fighters/terrorists (take your pick) Tim Jenkin (Daniel Radcliffe – Horns, Imperium) and Stephen Lee (Daniel Webber, above-right with …
Continue reading
The Peanut Butter Falcon on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
The Peanut Butter Falcon centres around Zak (Zachary Gottsagen), a young man with Down’s Syndrome lives in a care home, but longs to be a wrestler. First, he must escape the clutches of his care …
Continue reading
Roma: Criterion Collection on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Roma is a bizarre film which I was really looking forward to, but which veers beyond essential and quite the opposite, mainly because it’s at its best when we follow the story of live-in maid …
Continue reading
Relaxer on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Relaxer gives us something we’ve never seen before: a movie where Abbie is a character portrayed by a man. Okay, so his name is really Abner, but sticking with it, this Abbey (Joshua Burge) is …
Continue reading
Holiday on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review – Victoria Carmen Sonne
Holiday begins with young Sascha (Victoria Carmen Sonne) arriving at the Turkish Riviera, being picked up by Bobby (Yuval Segal), on behalf of her new beau, drug lord Michael (Lai Yde), and does herself no …
Continue reading
Primal on DVD – The DVDfever Review – Nicolas Cage
Primal sees the prolific Nicolas Cage back onscreen as Nicolas Cage, but this time he’s animal hunter Frank Walsh, in the Brazillian jungle, exporting a 400lb jaguar back to the US on the same ship …
Continue reading
First Love – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Takashi Miike
First Love is the third film I’ve seen from director Takashi Miike, who has made over 100 in his time. I loved Audition, but was woefully disappointed with Terra-Formars, so how does this one fare? …
Continue reading
Parasite – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Bong Joon Ho
Parasite has won a number of gongs during Awards Season, but did it deserve them all, or was it just the Academy pandering to diversity and ticking boxes, as this time is the first ever …
Continue reading