A Killer Paradox centres around convenience store worker Lee Tang (Choi Woo-sik), who’s having a very tedious day, moaning that “nothing spectacular” happens in his life. Similarly, I’ll also be a bit boring by not …
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Finders Keepers – The DVDfever Review – Channel 5 drama – Neil Morrissey, James Buckley
Finders Keepers isn’t just a phrase, but a new Channel 5 drama, where Martin (Neil Morrissey – The Long Call) and family seem quite flush, to the point where he even sniffs his wine at …
Continue readingMigration 3D – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Kumail Nanjiani, Elizabeth Banks
Migration 3D: Yes, there are still some 3D films around, even if the only way I’m going to get value from that part of my Odeon LimitlessPlus subscription is to sit through a cacophony of …
Continue readingHot Mess Summer – The DVDfever Review – Amazon Prime Video – Rylan Clark
Hot Mess Summer proves that if anyone can do a gameshow, it’s Rylan Clark. He’s ace, and was even surprisingly good on Channel 4’s Alternative Election Night in 2019! This time, though, he’s having to …
Continue readingOne Day – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Ambika Mod, Leo Woodall
One Day is a new drama series which first takes us back to one particular day: 15th July 1988 to be precise (and St Swithin’s Day, as we’re soon informed), as Dexter (Leo Woodall – …
Continue readingAll of Us Strangers – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Andrew Scott, Paul Mescal
All of Us Strangers opens with Adam (Andrew Scott – Spectre), a writer who adapts film scripts, working late in his apartment, in a largely empty building, since for whatever reason, there’s hardly anybody living …
Continue readingG’Wed – The DVDfever Review – ITVX comedy – Dylan Thomas Smith, Jake Kenny-Byrne
G’Wed or, in English, “Go ahead“. In this, Christopher (Jake Kenny-Byrne) is the posh kid having to live on a council estate with his grandma after his mum passed away, thus by dropping his social …
Continue readingMr And Mrs Smith (2024) – The DVDfever Review – Amazon Prime Video – Maya Erskine, Donald Glover
Mr And Mrs Smith (2024) sees Amazon take on an existing franchise which began with an incredible 2005 action movie, starring then-married Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt (who recently turned 60, but like Benjamin Button, …
Continue readingJackdaw – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Jenna Coleman
Jackdaw shows that if I thought Baghead was going to be the low point of the movie week, this film stopped me and shouted, “Hold my beer!” Someone’s clearly been watching Titanic too much, since …
Continue readingBaghead – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Freya Allan, Peter Mullan
Baghead – what a name for a movie! Sounds like some sort of Scouse slur. The film opens with Owen Lark (Peter Mullan, chewing scenery, as usual), making one of those movie “If you’re watching …
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