American Made begins in 1978, but is told in flashback from late 2015, with Tom Cruise as Barry Seal, who flies planes very adeptly for TWA, but is not adverse to using the trips to …
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The Great British Bake Off – Channel 4 Episode 1 (Series 8) – The DVDfever Review
The Great British Bake Off is a programme I’ve never seen before, but when it was announced that it was making the move from BBC1 to Channel 4, in an expensive £75m three-year deal, fans …
Continue readingThe Endless Summer Special Edition on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
The Endless Summer is documentary filmmaker Bruce Brown’s movie about the search for the perfect wave, and how the ultimate achievement is to get covered by the wave, as if you’re riding through a tube. …
Continue readingStrike – The Cuckoo’s Calling – Complete Series – The DVDfever Review
Strike… Cormoran Strike. Who on Earth has a surname of Strike? Maybe that’s why JK picked it. Yes, JK Rowling, since Robert Galbraith, the ‘author’ of the books on which this series is based, is …
Continue readingBushwick – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Bushwick is an area of Brooklyn, New York, where the world has been completely turned upon its head. We first see Lucy (Brittany Snow) trying to get to her grandma’s house after finishing college for …
Continue readingDeath Note – The DVDfever Cinema / Netflix Review
Death Note has the simple premise about a book which passes from one owner to another, and whoever possesses it at the time can write the name of the person they want to die, as …
Continue readingTheir Finest on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Their Finest – based on the novel, Their Finest Hour And A Half – in case you wondered why the title didn’t make a huge heap of sense and was wildly ambiguous – centres around …
Continue readingStreetmate (2017) Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review – Scarlett Moffatt
Streetmate shows that if Channel 4 hadn’t learned their lesson about the car crash that is Scarlett Moffatt from Host The Week, when she killed it off in its inaugral episode, they might never learn…. …
Continue readingThe State: Complete Series – The DVDfever Review – Channel 4 Drama
The State is a new drama from Peter Kosminsky (Wolf Hall, 2011’s The Promise) about those wanting to join ISIS, aka the Islamic State. So, straight away, you know this is going to be different …
Continue readingClash on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Clash has nothing to do with the popular London band during the ’70s and ’80s, but is more a clash of cultures and beliefs, and shows quite a rarity in filmmaking in that the entirety …
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