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Fly Me To The Moon is set in the time of the space race, even though the film doesn’t bother to tell us what year in which it actually begins, so we have to piece …
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Tag: Daniel Pemberton
Ferrari – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Adam Driver, Penélope Cruz
Ferrari is based on the life of the former racer with the first name Enzo, and the book subtitled “The Man, The Cars, The Races, The Machine” – all of which would rather have made …
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Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Shameik Moore
Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse has opening credits which are like a bubblegum nightmare with pastel shades of colour. I hadn’t seen the previous film, so I came to everything afresh, but with Spider-Gwen (Hailee Steinfeld …
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Brian and Charles on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review – David Earl, Chris Hayward
Brian and Charles centres around two unlikely leads, as the former (played by co-writer David Earl) creates a robot following a bout of depression during the winter, because he needs a companion. I can understand …
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See How They Run – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Sam Rockwell, Saoirse Ronan
See How They Run refers to mice, and opens with a 1953 West End performance of The Mousetrap, the Agatha Christie play which I’ve not seen, and I don’t think it’s ever been made into …
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Chivalry – The DVDfever Review – Channel 4 – Steve Coogan, Sarah Solemani
Chivalry is a new comedy drama which felt a bit odd to get into at first, because it feels like we’ve been dropped into a series halfway through it having already begun. But getting past …
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The Afterparty – The DVDfever Review – Apple TV+ – Tiffany Haddish
The Afterparty centres around a murder mystery at a high school reunion. The Class of 2006 are having a 15-year reunion. I don’t know if my school ever had these, but I certainly never went …
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Being The Ricardos – The DVDfever Review – Amazon Prime – Nicole Kidman
Being The Ricardos takes us behind the scenes of I Love Lucy, and the lives of the couple both offscreen and on, Lucille Ball (Nicole Kidman) and Desi Arnaz (Javier Bardem). Back in those days, …
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The Trial of the Chicago 7 – The DVDfever Review – Eddie Redmayne
The Trial of the Chicago 7 is based on the same situation which also spawned the 1987 TV movie, Conspiracy: The Trial of the Chicago 8… so, who’s the 8th individual? I’ll get to that. …
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Enola Holmes – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Millie Bobbie Brown
Enola Holmes is the female offspring of the Sherlock family, but very tomboyish with it, despite the long hair. The film opens with a brief run-through her early life, telling us how “Enola spelt backwards …
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