Beauty and the Beast – Meh. More or less a beat-by-beat retread of the animation. On the couple of occasions it adds something new, it’s quite good, but adds little to the original. Emma Watson …
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The New Man – a captivating documentary – The DVDfever Review
The New Man is a documentary about becoming a parent which, based on the trailer, made me think this was going to be a little too light-hearted and knockabout, but I was so wrong. The …
Continue readingGet Out – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Jordan Peele
Get Out brings British actor Daniel Kaluuya (Psychoville) to the fore in a US movie as Chris Washington, a young black man with a white girlfriend, Rose (Allison Williams); he’s off to meet her parents …
Continue readingVengeance: A Love Story on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Vengeance: A Love Story is a gritty thriller which its lead, Nicolas Cage, was originally slated to direct, but instead chose to produce alongside Michael Mendelsohn, who also took the same reins with Cage’s recent …
Continue readingPet on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Pet centres around loner Seth (Dominic Monaghan) who works in a dog pound by day, then chances across young waitress Holly (Ksenia Solo) and tries to chat her up, preteding he went to college with …
Continue readingKong: Skull Island – Decent creature-feature fun – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Kong: Skull Island is normally the kind of films that would shown up on the big screen in the summer, but has actually come at a welcome time for parents of young children. Their offspring …
Continue readingI.T. – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Pierce Brosnan
I.T. centres around family man Mike Regan (Pierce Brosnan) who’s going to unleash a new business that allows you to call for a jet plane in the same way that the average Joe calls out …
Continue readingLogan – The way ALL superhero movies should be made – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Logan is purportedly the final Wolverine movie, and I’ll only go into as much detail as the Red Band Trailer 2 shows below, as it’s often difficult to know what you can and can’t say …
Continue readingI, Daniel Blake on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
I, Daniel Blake begins with the 59-year-old carpenter titular character, portrayed by comedian Dave Johns, applying for ESA (Employment and Support Allowance), and being asked a succession of – irrelevant, to him – questions when …
Continue readingPatriots Day – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Patriots Day is the third Monday in April, on which the Boston Marathon takes place, but the one in 2013 is the focus here as it was the day two ISIS terrorists planned to set …
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