Invasion Season 2 is here, and it’s been almost two years since we had season 1. I never thought it was brilliant, but it started off tolerable, and then got progressively worse. So, why am …
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Enter the Dragon 50th Anniversary 4K Restoration – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Bruce Lee
Enter the Dragon was shown in cinemas as a 4K 50th Anniversary presentation, with Shannon Lee introducing it, the daughter of its star, Bruce Lee, who sadly passed away in 1973 before this movie was …
Continue readingHeart of Stone – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Gal Gadot, Jing Lusi
Heart of Stone is a new Gal Gadot actioner, which wasn’t available for preview before release, which always sets alarm bells ringing. Cliches begin early, as non-field agent Rachel Stone (Gadot – The Flash) needs …
Continue readingShelter – The DVDfever Review – Amazon Prime Video – Harlan Coben
Shelter is the latest Harlan Coben novel to come to the small screen, the best of the recent ones I’ve seen being The Stranger on Netflix. The story first begins in New Jersey, 1998, where …
Continue readingThe Blackening – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Antoinette Robertson
The Blackening is prefaced with the words: “The following is based on true events… that never happened” Following an intro scene which gives a flavour to the film, eight friends have a reunion at a …
Continue readingScrapper – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Lola Campbell, Harris Dickinson
Scrapper takes us back to the days when you’re a kid and you go round to your friends’ houses, asking if they’re playing out. However, for Georgie (Lola Campbell) and Ali (Alin Uzun), this involves …
Continue readingHaunted Mansion – The DVDfever Cinema Review – LaKeith Stanfield
Haunted Mansion is set in New Orleans, including the very corner on which the opening funeral march was filmed in Live And Let Die. That was the high point of this. Ben Matthias (LaKeith Stanfield …
Continue readingHenpocalypse – The DVDfever Review – BBC drama – Elizabeth Berrington
Henpocalypse Henpocalypse sees a hen do going from bad to worse, as Bernadette (Elizabeth Berrington – The Responder)’s daughter, Zara (Lucie Shorthouse – We Are Lady Parts) is getting married, but first needs to jump …
Continue readingThe Reunion – The DVDfever Review – ITV drama – Ioan Gruffudd
The Reunion has an opening episode which jumps back and forth in time, in which Ioan Gruffudd‘s (Titanic) younger equivalent of his Thomas character, played by Billy Gunnion, has a daliance with a young Russian …
Continue readingPainkiller – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Uzo Aduba, Matthew Broderick
Painkiller is new six-part Netflix series, and while this is a drama, based on real events and with some fictionalised scenes, it’s initially introduced by the mother of Christopher Trejo, who was prescribed Oxycontin, and …
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