Detour is a film which, from the trailer, looked like it could end up hit-or-miss, but in the full telling will most likely be one of my Top 10 films of the year. Law student …
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Jawbone – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Jawbone tells the underdog tale of former child-star boxing champion Jimmy McCabe (Johnny Harris). His best years are long behind him, thanks heavy drinking and the fact that the council want to evict him from …
Continue readingAlien Covenant – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Alien Covenant could just really be called Covenant, since that’s the name of the spaceship in this movie, like the previous one’s Prometheus… which was just called Prometheus, and not Alien Prometheus… not that it …
Continue readingAway – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Timothy Spall, Juno Temple
Away is where everyone wants to get to, once in a while, but here, it’s the mismatched pairing of widower Joseph (Timothy Spall) and ex-junkie Ria (Juno Temple), as they meet in a film which …
Continue readingUnlocked – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Unlocked stars Noomi Rapace (Prometheus, Rupture) as Alice Racine, a CIA agent who had her fill of the frontline action when an operation in Paris, 2012, resulted in lot of civilian casualties. She hasn’t been …
Continue readingGuardians of the Galaxy Vol.2 – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.2 is kinda stuck in the past…. 2014, to be precise. It’s a bit like Rogue One in that it hops from planet to planet at the start before settling down, …
Continue readingCatfight on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Catfight is a film which didn’t grab me from the trailer, despite anything featuring feisty Asian women usually fits right up my street, but then the Blu-ray arrived, so I thought I’d check it out… …
Continue readingNotes On Blindness on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Notes On Blindness is now out on Blu-ray and you might be thinking… hang on, didn’t that come out last year? Well, yes and no – yes on DVD only, as while it rightly had …
Continue readingIt’s Only The End Of The World on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
It’s Only The End Of The World centres around Gaspard Ulliel as Louis, who made a name for himself away from the family home as a writer, but as this film begins – and after …
Continue readingFast And Furious 8 out of 10! – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Fast And Furious 8 – aka The Fate of the Furious – is the… er… eighth film in the fast-driving franchise, and is the first one I’ve actually seen. I never got into them when …
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