Fool Me Once brings us the premise we’ve always wanted: Michelle Keegan (Ten Pound Poms) is single! Woohoo! But for her, hubby Joe (Richard Armitage – Obsession) is dead… boo-hoo! Alas, for her character, Maya, …
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The Sandman – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Tom Sturridge
The Sandman begins in 1916, at Wych Cross, England, and in the waking world, aka the ‘real world’. Meanwhile, the titular Sandman is in the dream world, with Dream (Tom Sturridge – Remainder, Journey’s End) …
Continue readingStay Close – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Cush Jumbo, James Nesbitt
Stay Close comes from Harlan Coben, who also brought us 2020’s The Stranger, an engaging, but occasionally daft, drama. However, I loved that it was set in my home town of Stockport. The basic premise …
Continue readingUnhinged on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review – Russell Crowe
Unhinged: Before I saw this, I thought the premise was ridiculous and well-worn. After all, how many road rage movies can there be? Or can Russell Crowe actually bring something different to the steering wheel? …
Continue readingThe Stranger – The DVDfever Review – Richard Armitage
The Stranger begins with something I never expected in a drama… scenes from my hometown of Stockport! Then there was something rather less palatable as we saw a naked man running through the woods before …
Continue readingAngel Has Fallen – The DVDfever Cinema / Blu-ray Review
Angel Has Fallen is now out on Blu-ray, and I’ve updated my cinema review to include a look at the extras, which is later on in this review. The film follows on from 2013’s Olympus …
Continue readingBatman Arkham VR on PC – The DVDfever Review
Batman Arkham VR is set before the events of 2015’s Batman Arkham Knight, a game which had immeasurable issues on the PC, took months to fix and by the time it was ready, my button-bashing …
Continue readingJason Bourne – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Jason Bourne is Matt Damon‘s titular hero who gave us ‘Die Hard in a Forgetful Man’s Head‘ in Robert Ludlum‘s Bourne Trilogy, beginning with Doug Liman‘s superb 2002 opener, The Bourne Identity which, even before …
Continue readingGrimsby on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review – Uncut 18-certificate version
Grimsby started off with a better title, in my eyes – The Brothers Grimsby, it being a play on the Brothers Grimm, even though it’s not a fairy tale, so perhaps that’s why they changed …
Continue readingThe Nice Guys – The DVDfever Cinema Review
The Nice Guys is another buddy-buddy action movie where the trailer promised a cracking run of hilarious gags as Jackson Healy (Russell Crowe) – who always lets his fists do the talking (usually his right …
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