Traitors is a new World War II drama which looked stylish from the trailers, and I thought was going for an Allied-style approach, as that’s a modern WW2 movie, but is it as entertaining in …
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Dweebs Drop on ZX Spectrum Next – The DVDfever Review
Dweebs Drop is a new ZX Spectrum title which is inspired by the likes of Tetris and Candy Crush, and is the fourth physical release ever. It’s a great puzzle game, but deceptively devious, since …
Continue readingAlita: Battle Angel in IMAX 3D – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Alita: Battle Angel, originally was a manga known as Battle Angel Alita*. Quite why they’ve gone with this change, I don’t know and it’s never been explained, so I can only guess that it’s when …
Continue readingPolar – The DVDfever Netflix Review – Mads Mikkelsen
Polar is based on the Dark Horse graphic novel, to which I was not aware of prior to hearing about this film, but the premise is that when assassins retire at the imposed age of …
Continue readingResident Evil 2 Remake on Xbox One – The DVDfever Review
Resident Evil 2 Remake: As soon as you switch this on and see the Capcom logo appear in front of you, you should reminisce about the sheer terror of playing this on the PS1 (or …
Continue readingBlindspotting on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Blindspotting centres around Collin (Daveed Diggs), who has completed a 2-month sentence in jail after what happened when he worked as the bouncer for a bar (which you’ll discover as you watch the film), and …
Continue readingVelvet Buzzsaw – The DVDfever Cinema / Netflix Review – Jake Gyllenhaal
Velvet Buzzsaw looked, from the trailer, like Netflix has knocked it out of the park again, as it teams up Nightcrawler (one of the best films of its year) with its effervescent star Jake Gyllenhaal, …
Continue readingGreen Book – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Viggo Mortensen, Mahershala Ali
Green Book looked from the trailer like a colour-swap version of Driving Miss Daisy, as working-class Italian-American bouncer Tony Vallelonga – aka Tony Lip (Viggo Mortensen) – becomes the driver for African-American classical pianist Don …
Continue readingCan You Ever Forgive Me? – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Melissa McCarthy in *good film* shocker?
Can You Ever Forgive Me? marked a rare departure for me – a return to actually WANTING to watch a Melissa McCarthy movie after the godawful 2016 Ghostbusters reboot, but that’s because this is (a) …
Continue readingGris on PC / Steam – The DVDfever Review
Gris is one of those games which is rarely like anything you’ve played before, but which at the same time, does. It’s immensely difficult to explain what it’s all about because I didn’t understand it …
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