London Korean Film Festival 2017: Every year, as winter comes around, we look forward to this event, and 2017 certainly lived up to expectations. There seems to be a real urgency in the country’s exploration …
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Raw – The DVDfever Review
Raw centres around freshman University student and vegetarian Justine (Garance Marillier) who, together with her biology class, are liberally splattered with animal blood as part of an initiation, leaving her with a huge rash. It …
Continue readingBrawl in Cell Block 99 – The DVDfever Review
Brawl in Cell Block 99 is a violent prison drama starting Vince Vaughn and… hang on… Vince Vaughn?! If you’d asked me who’s the ‘man least likely to’ star as a shaven-headed (possibly neo-Nazi, but …
Continue readingBFI 61st London Film Festival Part 3 by Helen M Jerome
BFI 61st London Film Festival Part 3 brings us all the documentaries, plus the 2017 DVDfever Film Awards! No matter the quantity and quality of high-profile feature films spread across the London Film Festival, you …
Continue readingBFI 61st London Film Festival Part 2 by Helen M Jerome
BFI 61st London Film Festival Part 2: What a time for international filmmaking – and particularly European movies from our near neighbours, Spain, Italy and France, plus Hungary, Austria and Poland. Vive la difference! So …
Continue readingBFI 61st London Film Festival Part 1 by Helen M Jerome
BFI 61st London Film Festival Part 1: Let me take you by the hand and lead you towards the films that are streets ahead of the rest, the ones you’ll need to track down, and …
Continue readingRough Night on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Rough Night, when I saw the Red Band (i.e. sweary) Trailer (at the bottom of this review), looked like a series of rough ideas that should’ve been thrown in the toilet rather than turned into …
Continue readingDunkirk on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Dunkirk tells the story of the evacuation of Dunkirk, which was code-named Operation Dynamo – although that wasn’t named in this film, and showed the extrication of our soldiers from Dunkirk’s beaches and harbour in …
Continue readingBright – The DVDfever Cinema / Netflix Review
Bright is a new Netflix movie set in an alternate present. Have you had a trip or fall at work? Cop Daryl Ward (Will Smith) has, and it’s the fault of an orc, so it’s …
Continue readingAva – The DVDfever Review
Ava (Noée Abita) is a girl of 13 years of age, who has just learned that her sight is failing. Sure, this happens to all of us, but not at that age, and it’s happening …
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