Borg Vs McEnroe, as the title suggests, catalogues the pair fighting it out for the 1980 Wimbledon Final, between No.1 seed Bjorn Borg (Sverrir Gudnason) – looking for his fifth consecutive title, and No.2 seed …
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Mother! on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Right from the off, you know that Mother! is not going to be your usual, run-of-the-mill movie, for reasons you’ll see instantly, and which I won’t describe here. Don’t panic early on, as it looks …
Continue readingDaphne on DVD – The DVDfever Review
Daphne is a classic example of one of those films which really grabbed me from the trailer, below, but turned out to be considerably less than the sum of its parts. Portrayed by Emily Beecham, …
Continue readingWind River on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Wind River is centred around the Wind River Indian Reservation, in Wyoming, where Cory Lambert (Jeremy Renner) is called to hunt a lion – which killed a horse – in teaching its young how to …
Continue readingThe Post – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Pentagon Papers Pish
The Post centres around US newspaper The Washington Post, and revealing deep government secrets about the Vietnam War, courtesy of military analyst Daniel Ellsberg (Matthew Rhys) who’s travelled to the country in question, in 1966, …
Continue readingMaze on DVD – The DVDfever Review
Maze is the prison, in Northern Ireland, where, in 1983, Larry Marley (Tom Vaughan-Lawlor) ends up after ten of his friends have died from hunger strike, including Bobby Sands. Marley’s plan is to break out, …
Continue readingI Am Not A Witch on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
I Am Not A Witch is one of those films where I wasn’t really sure what I just watched, even though it parts of it were certainly worth a watch. Shula (Maggie Mulubwa) is an …
Continue readingDarkest Hour – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Good Gary. Film Failure
Darkest Hour gives Gary Oldman a turn as Prime Minister Winston Churchill, after Brian Cox’s Churchill last year, but with Oldman as the man at the time of the Dunkirk evacuations, so incredibly portrayed last …
Continue readingThree Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, is what Mildred (Frances McDormand) hires out when she spots them, early on, and wants to put something out there relating to the death of her daughter, but she asks …
Continue readingGood Time on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Good Time is a crime thriller with two brothers attempting a bank robbery which doesn’t quite go to plan. With one of them quite sharp, and the other mentally ill, and with Connie (Robert Pattinson) …
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