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 …
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G’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 …
Continue readingA Bloody Lucky Day – The DVDfever Review – Paramount+ – South Korean drama
A Bloody Lucky Day is a new South Korean drama, centering around taxi driver Oh Taek (Lee Sung-min), who is, indeed having a good one, when he starts off his shift by getting some tips, …
Continue readingThe Dry – The DVDfever Review – ITV drama – Roisin Gallagher
The Dry is a new Britbox drama centering around Shiv Sheridan (Roisin Gallagher – The Lovers), a woman who’s sobering up for the first time in her life. As such, when she arrivesat the airport, …
Continue readingTrigger Point Series 2 – The DVDfever Review – ITV drama – Vicky McClure
Trigger Point Series 2 sees Lana (Vicky McClure – Without Sin) returning to the fore after having spent six months training bomb disposal teams in Estonia. Her first task is to give a routine talk …
Continue readingExpats – The DVDfever Review – Amazon Prime Video – Nicole Kidman, Ji-young Yoo
Expats is rich people’s problems, and less Desperate Housewives, but more Desperate Scriptwriting, since in order to get to an hour each episode in the first two, there’s more filler in the script than there …
Continue readingThe Holdovers – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Paul Giamatti
The Holdovers feels rather like a 1970s version of The Breakfast Club, in part, since out of all the teachers at Barton Academy, its classics professor, Paul Hunham (Paul Giamatti – Love And Mercy), draws …
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