The Bricklayer. Last month, it was The Beekeeper. Whoever next? The Butcher? The Baker? The Candlestick Maker? Anyhoo, the attempted plot in this is that someone called Popov has popped off… having been killed off …
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The Portable Door – The DVDfever Review – Sky Cinema – Christoph Waltz, Sam Neill
The Portable Door is one of those films which mixes periods in time about the decor, such as how this has a futuristic door which can take you anywhere, yet the office in the Department …
Continue readingOne Shot – The DVDfever Review – Scott Adkins – One-take movie
One Shot sees a bunch of Navy SEALs including Jake Harris (Scott Adkins), plus CIA bod Zoe Anderson (Ashley Greene Khoury), heading to pick up terrorist Amin Mansur (Waleed Elgadi), who’s being held at a …
Continue readingMass – The DVDfever Review – Sky Cinema – Jason Isaacs, Martha Plimpton
Mass is mostly a four-hander, with a very brief briefing that just states how many years earlier, there was “an unspeakable tragedy”, and now, the two sets of parents agree to talk in an attempt …
Continue readingSave The Cinema – The DVDfever Review – Sky Cinema – Samantha Morton
Save The Cinema is a new Sky Cinema film set in the ’90s, even though early on, we get The Waterboys’ Whole Of The Moon – from 1985 – blaring out. Then again, it did …
Continue readingLast Train To Christmas – The DVDfever Review – Sky Cinema – Michael Sheen
Last Train To Christmas is set entirely on a train, and begins on Christmas Eve, 1985, with the film’s opening 16:9 aspect ratio neatly changing back to 4:3. After embarking on the vehicle in question, …
Continue readingZack Snyder’s Justice League – The DVDfever Review – Ben Affleck, Gal Gadot
Zack Snyder’s Justice League is now out on Blu-ray and 4K Blu-ray (see pictures and a look at the content further down), and takes the 2017 Justice League movie, which I really enjoyed, and turns …
Continue readingPromising Young Woman – The DVDfever Review – Carey Mulligan
Promising Young Woman begins with its lead character, Cassandra (Carey Mulligan – The Dig), feeling very drunk in a nightclub, and seemingly unwisely getting a lift back with fellow clubber Jerry (Adam Brody) to his …
Continue readingAmmonite – The DVDfever Review – Saoirse Ronan, Kate Winslet
Ammonite is set in the 1840s, and centres around standoffish fossil hunter Mary Anning (Kate Winslet – in the forthcoming Mare Of Easttown), who’s taking huge, fossilised rocks off the beach, starting with a titular …
Continue readingSix Minutes To Midnight – The DVDfever Review – Eddie Izzard, Judi Dench
Six Minutes To Midnight is set as we head towards the summer of 1939, after which, World War II will be on the way. Thomas Miller (Eddie Izzard – The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance) …
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