Assassins Creed begins with a brief set-up in 1492 about the Order of the Knights Templar, then moves on to 1986 showing Callum Lynch as a kid on a bike in 1986, after his mother …
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Passengers – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Passengers. 5000 of them, and over 200 crew, but Jim (Chris Pratt) is the only one woken up 90 years early by an incident through an asteroid field, so he’s got a long time to …
Continue readingLondon Korean Film Festival 2016 by Helen M Jerome
London Korean Film Festival 2016: The quality is always high and the quantity seems to expand each year, as Helen M Jerome finds at the 2016 London Korean Film Festival. These days the best-curated festivals …
Continue readingJonathan Creek: Daemons’ Roost (2016 Christmas Special) – The DVDfever Review
Daemons’ Roost is the latest of a number of occasional Jonathan Creek specials, in lieu of a full series, but whether running for 60, 90 or 120 minutes, it continues the same pattern where I …
Continue readingThe Devil of Christmas – Inside No.9 Christmas 2016 – Series 3 Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review
The Devil of Christmas is the first Christmas special for Inside No.9 and delivers a spoof of a 1977 seasonal programme, shot in 4:3, complete with intentional bad acting, there’s a camera coming into shot …
Continue readingWar Dogs on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
War Dogs is narrated by David Packouz (Miles Teller), the film opening with him as the international arms dealer in question, and having a gun pointed at his head, showing the mess he’s got into, …
Continue readingSausage Party on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Sausage Party features lots of rudeness as sausages meet buns, causing much innuendo, which made me feel that the number of ideas were so thin in the trailer that I was amazed it lasted two-and-a-half …
Continue readingThe Witness For The Prosecution (2016) – The DVDfever Review – BBC Drama
The Witness For The Prosecution is one of many TV and film adaptions based on the original Agatha Christie short story, based in London, August 1923. Emily French (Kim Cattrall) is a wealthy woman with …
Continue readingMechanic Resurrection on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Mechanic Resurrection? Well, yes, Jason Statham‘s character pretended to die at the end of the first one, but no-one really tries to bury a potential franchise from the off. Still, would it make any difference …
Continue readingThe Return of Doctor Mysterio – Doctor Who: Christmas Episode 2016 – The DVDfever Review
The Return of Doctor Mysterio presented me with a dilemma since there were no previews available for this episode, despite there having been so for last year’s Christmas special, so I figured either this one …
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