The Gentlemen centres around a very British drug lord (Hugh Grant), who tries to sell off his highly profitable empire to a dynasty of Oklahoma billionaires. This looks like it could be okay, but… Dom RobinsonReviewer of movies, videogames and music since 1994. Aortic valve operation survivor from the same year. Running DVDfever.co.uk since 2000. […]
A Very English Scandal centres around the late Jeremy Thorpe (Hugh Grant), an MP who became the leader of the Liberal Party, but – starting in 1965 and with the story going back to 1961 – it was a time when being gay was very much frowned upon back then. Thankfully, times these days are […]
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Paddington 2: This Time It’s Personal… no, that was Jaws IV: The Revenge, but both feature individuals who are little alien in their respective environments because they’re getting hassled by ‘the man’. There’s a complex plot about how Aunt Lucy’s 100th birthday is coming up, and the little bear cub decides he should get her […]
Posted in Blu-ray, Movies, Reviews Tags: Aaron Neil, Alex Jordan, Ben Miller, Ben Whishaw, Brendan Gleeson, Cal McCrystal, Catherine Shepherd, Dan Antopolski, David Heyman, David Sant, Deepak Anand, Eileen Atkins, Emeson Nwolie, Enzo Squillino Jr, Geoff Banks, Hamish McColl, Hugh Bonneville, Hugh Grant, Imelda Staunton, Jamie Demetriou, Jennie Legat, Jessica Hynes, Jim Broadbent, Joanna Lumley, Joel Fry, Julie Walters, Justin Edwards, Kya Garwood, Madeleine Harris, Maggie Steed, Marie-France Alvarez, Michael Bond, Michael Gambon, Nicholas Lumley, Nick Urata, Noah Taylor, Pablo Grillo, Paddington 2, Paul King, Peter Capaldi, Robbie Gee, Robert Stevenson, Sally Hawkins, Sam Payne, Samuel Joslin, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Simon Farnaby, Stephen McDade, Tom Conti, Tom Davis, Virgile Elana No Comments »The BAFTA 2018 Awards will take place on Sunday February 18th and will be broadcast on BBC1 that evening. The nominations are as follows and, as usual, they include a stack of films which haven’t even been released yet in the UK. Best Film: Call Me By Your Name Darkest Hour Dunkirk The Shape Of […]
Posted in Features Tags: All the Money in the World, Allison Janney, Annette Bening, BAFTA 2018, Blade Runner 2049, Call Me by Your Name, Christopher Nolan, Christopher Plummer, Daniel Day-Lewis, Daniel Kaluuya, Darkest Hour, Denis Villeneuve, Dunkirk, Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool, Florence Pugh, Frances McDormand, Gary Oldman, Get Out, God's Own Country, Guillermo del Toro, Hugh Grant, I Am Not a Witch, I Tonya, Jamie Bell, Jawbone, Josh O’Connor, Kingdom Of Us, Kristin Scott Thomas, Lady Bird, Lady Macbeth, Laurie Metcalf, Lesley Manville, Luca Guadagnino, Margot Robbie, Martin McDonagh, Octavia Spencer, Paddington 2, Phantom Thread, Sally Hawkins, Sam Rockwell, Saoirse Ronan, Tessa Thompson, The Death of Stalin, The Florida Project, The Ghoul, The Shape of Water, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri, Timothée Chalamet, Willem Dafoe, Woody Harrelson No Comments »Paddington 2 – it’s coming. Just accept it. Okay, the first one in 2014 was quite funny, but it didn’t need a sequel. However, money talks, so the bear from darkest Peru is back. Voiced by Ben Whishaw, Paddington is now happily settled with the Brown family in Windsor Gardens, where he has become a […]
The BAFTA 2017 Awards will take place on Sunday February 12th and will be broadcast on BBC1 that evening. The nominations are as follows and, as usual, they include a stack of films which haven’t even been released yet in the UK. Best film: Arrival I, Daniel Blake La La Land Manchester by the Sea […]
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Bridget Jones’ Baby – let’s get this right from the start. For me, that’s the title, NOT “Bridget Jones’s Baby”. Who puts the extra, redundant ‘s’ in these things? Probably the same people who say ‘forward slash’ in a web address, when it’s just ‘slash’. You’d only have a ‘back slash’ if you had an […]
Posted in Cinema films, Movies, Reviews Tags: Agni Scott, Alana Hood, Ashley McGuire, Beattie Edmondson, Ben Ashenden, Ben Willbond, Bridget Jones' Baby, Bruce Wang, Caroline Aherne, Celia Imrie, Colin Firth, Craig Armstrong, Dan Mazer, Darren Boyd, David Crow, Debra Gillett, Debra Hayward, Dolly Wells, Dominic Coleman, Donald Douglas, Ed Sheeran, Emma Thompson, Enzo Cilenti, Eric Fellner, Gemma Jones, Helen Fielding, Hugh Grant, James Callis, James Faulkner, Jessica Hynes, Jim Broadbent, Joanna Scanlan, Joseph Harmon, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Kate O'Flynn, Katia Elizarova, Laura Checkley, Neil Pearson, Nick Mohammed, Patrick Dempsey, Patrick Malahide, Paul Bentall, Renée Zellweger, Sally Phillips, Sarah Solemani, Sharon Maguire, Shirley Dixon, Shirley Henderson, Tim Bevan, Tom Rosenthal No Comments »Florence Foster Jenkins looks like a period drama mixed with alleged comedy that comes across as exciting as looking forward to the next time I trap my fingers in a door. Meryl Streep plays the titular heroine, a New York heiress who dreamed of becoming an opera singer, despite having a terrible singing voice. Along […]
Posted in Movie, TV & game trailers Tags: Hugh Grant, Meryl Streep, Neve Gachev, Rebecca Ferguson, Simon Helberg No Comments »The Man From U.N.C.L.E. is the big-screen reboot of the TV series which ran from 1964-68, starring Robert Vaughn as Napoleon Solo and David McCallum as Illya Kuryakin, and this time the two lead roles are filled by Man of Steel‘s Henry Cavill and The Social Network‘s Armie Hammer. And now, the Official Comic-Con trailer […]
The Man From U.N.C.L.E. is the big-screen reboot of the TV series which ran from 1964-68, starring Robert Vaughn as Napoleon Solo and David McCallum as Illya Kuryakin, and this time the two lead roles are filled by Man of Steel‘s Henry Cavill and The Social Network‘s Armie Hammer. And now, the second official trailer […]
