“Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?” is the question asked by a man about to be deceased, courtesy of a fall down a steep hill, before he shuffles off his mortal coil. Dom RobinsonReviewer of movies, …
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Dolittle – Trailer 1 – Robert Downey Jr
Dolittle sees the titular doctor played this time by Robert Downey Jr… junior doctor? Either way, RDJr has bowed out of the Marvel universe to deal with different sorts of creatures, but is still joined …
Continue readingYears And Years: The Complete Series – The DVDfever Review – Russell T Davies
Years And Years is a new drama from Russell T Davies, whose work has had a chequered past with me, in that I really enjoyed some, but didn’t like others. This starts off as a …
Continue readingLate Night – Trailer 1 – Emma Thompson
Late Night centres around Emma Thompson as Katherine Newbury, a late-night talk show host who suspects that she may soon be losing her long-running show and has to work out why, and it looks like …
Continue readingMen in Black International (2019) – Flogging a dead horse for a 4th time
Men in Black International shows that if 3000 Marvel and DC movies aren’t enough, then why bother creating original ideas when you can just recycle old ones and flog a dead horse until its carcass …
Continue readingMissing Link – Trailer 1 – Hugh Jackman
Missing Link stars Hugh Jackman as the charismatic Sir Lionel Frost, who considers himself to be the world’s foremost investigator of myths and monsters. The trouble is none of his small-minded high-society peers seems to …
Continue readingThe Children Act – Trailer 1 – Emma Thompson
The Children Act is a film that looks very well-intentioned, and with some great names in the cast, but it looks extremely dull. As her marriage to Jack (Stanley Tucci) flounders, eminent High Court judge …
Continue readingThe Meyerowitz Stories – Trailer 1 – Ben Stiller
The Meyerowitz Stories sounds like the least interesting movie of the year as Adam Sandler and Ben Stiller are two brothers from an estranged family gathers together in New York for an event celebrating the …
Continue readingBeauty and the Beast (2017) – The DVDfever Review
Beauty and the Beast – Meh. More or less a beat-by-beat retread of the animation. On the couple of occasions it adds something new, it’s quite good, but adds little to the original. Emma Watson …
Continue readingAlone in Berlin Official Trailer 1 – Brendan Gleeson
Alone in Berlin features some dodgy German accents as Brendan Gleeson plays conscientious objector Otto Quangel in 1940 Berlin, when, after he and wife Anna (Emma Thompson) learn that their only son has lost his …
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