Pacific Rim: Uprising follows on from 2013’s Pacific Rim, and I’d never seen the original beforehand so watched it before settling down to this. Back then, the arm were battling Kaiju with big mech-robots called …
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Mission Impossible: Fallout – Limp-along-a-Cruise – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Mission Impossible: Fallout has such a title because Fallout relates to nuclear weapons, and with three plutonium warheads out there – and in the hands of a gang called The Apostles – they could be …
Continue readingMarcella Series 2 – The DVDfever Review – Anna Friel
Marcella Series 2 begins with the discovery of the body of Leo, a 9-year-old boy, who was kept prisoner in a room almost four years ago, occasionally trying – and in a futile attempt – …
Continue readingChurchill on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review – Brian Cox
Churchill… Winston Churchill… like Solo… Han Solo… and Bond… James Bond… Okay, let’s be serious for a moment. Churchill probably sounded like a great idea on paper. Wartime movies are sprinkling their way through the …
Continue readingDough – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Dough – is dough as in bread, not money, although you have to spend money to buy bread, and that’s also a problem for Nat Dayan (Jonathan Pryce), an orthodox jew who runs a failing …
Continue readingGhost In The Shell 3D IMAX (2017) – Stunning but soulless – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Ghost In The Shell centres around Major (Scarlett Johansson), a refugee whose boat sunk, and she was almost brown bread, but the powers that be used pioneering techniques to bring her back to life. On …
Continue readingThe Lego Batman Movie – It’s pretty awesome – The DVDfever Cinema Review
The Lego Batman Movie comes at a time when we were originally expecting the second Lego Movie, but with that one now not due for release until February 8th 2019 (coming five years after the …
Continue readingMarcella Series 1 – The DVDfever Review – Anna Friel
Marcella opens with a shot of the lead character, played by Anna Friel, in the bath, bruised and bloodied, the bathroom looking slightly cleaner than that in The Young Ones. However, this is no dream …
Continue readingTerminator Genisys on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Terminator Genisys, out now on Blu-ray (3D and 2D) and DVD, sounded like a bad idea the moment I saw the behind-the-scenes footage over a year ago, first teaser, then the first trailer, then the …
Continue readingTerminator Genisys – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Terminator Genisys sounded like a bad idea the moment I saw the behind-the-scenes footage almost a year ago, first teaser, then the first trailer, then the ‘living one-sheet poster‘ then… and so on. Perhaps if …
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