Generation Z opens with an army truck driving down a tight country lane before it flips over after a tyre blows, leading to its cannister splitting open, causing a spillage that’s having an unwanted effect, …
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Meg 2: The Trench – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Jason Statham
Meg 2: The Trench is out now, and one person who did NOT suffer the jaws of defeat was the first film’s Suyin. Bingbing Li didn’t return to her role for reasons unexplained, but because …
Continue readingRebecca – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Lily James, Armie Hammer
Rebecca is a new version of the 1940s Hitchcock movie (okay, technically, the 1938 Daphne du Maurier novel), and I wouldn’t have thought of Ben Wheatley as someone making a remake of such a film, …
Continue readingHappy New Year, Colin Burstead – The DVDfever Review
Happy New Year, Colin Burstead comes from Ben Wheatley who usually provides us rather off-the-wall movies such as Free Fire, Sightseers and A Field In England, so there’s always something going on, it’s almost always …
Continue readingFree Fire on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Free Fire has a simple premise – an arms deal goes wrong. Tetchy people with itchy trigger fingers lead to guns being shot when it really wasn’t necessary, as everything was almost about to go …
Continue readingFree Fire – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Free Fire has a simple premise – an arms deal goes wrong. Tetchy people with itchy trigger fingers lead to guns being shot when it really wasn’t necessary, as everything was almost about to go …
Continue readingHigh-Rise on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
High-Rise is classed as one of those ‘unfilmable novels’, although I don’t read books, probably having been put off early in life by being given Duncton Wood to read while I was in hospital. It …
Continue readingHigh-Rise – Int’l Teaser Trailer #1 – Tom Hiddleston
High-Rise is the latest movie from Ben Wheatley (A Field In England, Sightseers and the first two episodes of Doctor Who Series 8 – Deep Breath and Into The Dalek) and it has a simple …
Continue readingThe Duke of Burgundy on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
The Duke of Burgundy centres around a ‘master and servant’ BDSM relationship, with Cynthia (Borgen‘s Sidse Babett Knudsen) lording it over Evelyn (Chiara D’Anna), for example, making the latter clean the house whilst crawling around …
Continue readingInto The Dalek – Doctor Who: Series 8 Episode 2 – The DVDfever Review
Into the Dalek begins with The Doctor picking up Journey Blue (Fresh Meat‘s Zawe Ashton) from her ship, Aristotle, just before it’s been destroyed, and in trying to help, he winds up in a hospital …
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