Isle of Dogs is the colloquial term given to Trash Island, a place where all the Japanese non-recycled rubbish goes to, just outside of the country. Following a huge showdown between all the dogs and cats, resulting in almost a complete canine annihilation, a large number of the former have ‘dog flu’ and are exported […]
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No Comments »The OSCARS 2018 took place last night. The nominations are here, and the winners are as follows, although… #OscarsSoPredictable: Best Picture: The Shape of Water Dom RobinsonReviewer of movies, videogames and music since 1994. Aortic valve operation survivor from the same year. Running DVDfever.co.uk since 2000. Nobel Peace Prize winner 2021. https://DVDfever.co.uk
Posted in News Tags: A Fantastic Woman, Alex Gibson, Alexandre Desplat, Allison Janney, Blade Runner 2049, Call Me by Your Name, Coco, Darkest Hour, David Malinowski, Dear Basketball, Dunkirk, Frances McDormand, Gary A. Rizzo, Gary Oldman, Gerd Nefzer, Get Out, Gregg Landaker, Guillermo del Toro, Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on the 405, I Tonya, Icarus, James Ivory, Jeff Melvin, John Nelson, Jordan Peele, Kazuhiro Tsuji, Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Lee Smith, Lucy Sibbick, Mark Bridges, Mark Weingarten, Paul Denham Austerberry, Paul Lambert, Phantom Thread, Remember Me, Richard King, Richard R Hoover, Robert Lopez, Roger Deakins, Sam Rockwell, Shane Vieau, The Shape of Water, The Silent Child, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri No Comments »The BAFTA 2018 Awards took place tonight. The nominations are here, and the winners are as follows… so there ARE spoilers, since as I post this, the awards are still being broadcast on BBC1: Best Film: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (review) Outstanding British Film: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Dom RobinsonReviewer of movies, videogames […]
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The Shape Of Water centres around a weird water-dwelling creature which, on first encounter, almost thuds through the container it’s within, giving every unspecting Tom, Dick or Harriet a fright. Elisa Esposito (Sally Hawkins) and Zelda D Fuller (Octavia Spencer) are the facility’s resident cleaners, the former being a mute and the most curious about […]
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Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets is based on a 1960s French comic book series called Valerian and Laureline, the two main characters, and while the title sounds as bizarre as you’d expect from Besson, it’s based on two of those volumes, The City of Shifting Waters and Empire of a Thousand Planets. […]
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Tale Of Tales is a film from Matteo Garrone, who co-wrote the screenplay, based on 17th century Italian poet Giambattista Basile‘s The Pentamerone, which translates as “The Tale of Tales, or Entertainment for Little Ones”), yet, while on the one hand, some of the visuals are not what you’d want your children to see, on […]
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The Imitation Game begins in 1951 with Detective Nock (The Casual Vacancy‘s Rory Kinnear) and Sgt Staehl (Ideal‘s Tom Goodman-Hill) turn up to the reported break-in at Alan Turing’s house, where he’s reluctant to talk about anything other than to warn them to stay out otherwise they might come into contact with his home-made cyanide… […]
Posted in Blu-ray, Movies, Reviews Tags: Alan Turing, Alex Lawther, Alexandre Desplat, Allen Leech, Andrew Hodges, Benedict Cumberbatch, Charles Dance, Graham Moore, Ido Ostrowsky, Ilan Goodman, Jack Bannon, Jack Tarlton, James Northcote, Keira Knightley, Mark Strong, Matthew Beard, Matthew Goode, Morten Tyldum, Nora Grossman, Rory Kinnear, Steven Waddington, Teddy Schwarzman, The Imitation Game, Tom Goodman-Hill, Tuppence Middleton No Comments »The OSCARS 2015 took place last night and the winners are as follows: Best Picture: Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) Best Director: Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) – Alejandro G. Iñárritu Best Actor in a Leading Role: Eddie Redmayne – The Theory of Everything Best Actress in a Leading Role: Julianne […]
Posted in News Tags: Adam Stockhausen, Alan Robert Murray, Alejandro G Iñárritu, Alexander Dinelaris Jr, Alexandre Desplat, American Sniper, Andrew Lockley, Anna Pinnock, Armando Bo, Big Hero 6, Birdman, Boyhood, Bub Asman, Citizenfour, Crisis Hotline, Dana Perry, Dirk Wilutzky, Ellen Goosenberg Kent, Emmanuel Lubezki, Feast, Frances Hannon, Glory, Graham Moore, Gregg Rudloff, Ian Hunter, Ida, Interstellar, J.K. Simmons, John Reitz, Julianne Moore, Laura Poitras, Mark Coulier, Mathilde Bonnefoy, Milena Canonero, Nicolás Giacobone, OSCARS 2015, Patricia Arquette, Paul Franklin, Scott Fisher, Selma, Still Alice, The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Imitation Game, The Phone Call, The Theory of Everything, The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance, Tom Cross, Veterans Press 1, Walt Martin, Whiplash, eddie redmayne No Comments »The BAFTA 2015 Awards took place tonight. The nominations are here, and the winners are as follows: Best Film Boyhood – Richard Linklater, Cathleen Sutherland Outstanding British Film The Theory Of Everything – James Marsh, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Lisa Bruce, Anthony McCarten Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer Stephen Beresford, David […]
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The Grand Budapest Hotel makes its way on to Blu-ray and DVD, with a bold instruction at the start of the film: “PLEASE SET YOUR MONITOR TO 16X9”. You’ll see why in due course. The film involves the theft of a priceless painting, a wealthy, 84-year-old dowager (Tilda Swinton) who dies which leads to a […]
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