Judas and the Black Messiah begins in Chicago, 1968, with criminal Bill O’Neal (LaKeith Stanfield – Uncut Gems, Death Note) pretending to work for the FBI so he can walk into a bar and arrest …
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Honest Thief – The DVDfever Review – Liam Neeson
Honest Thief sees Liam Neeson (The Commuter) kicking bottom, once again, in an action role, even at his tender age of 68. He plays Tom, a former bank robber but is using his particular set …
Continue readingBill And Ted Face The Music – The DVDfever Review – Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter
Bill And Ted Face the Music is – I figured before I watched it – certainly a film that’s a curiosity, but a lot has been riding on it because it’s been 29 years since …
Continue readingSafe and Sound – Philip K Dick’s Electric Dreams Episode 9 – The DVDfever Review
Safe and Sound is the ninth episode of Philip K Dick’s Electric Dreams and begins in a world that’s a totalitarian state where there’s checkpoints everywhere you go, and the threat of terrorism is never …
Continue readingArkangel – Black Mirror Series 4 Episode 2 – The DVDfever Review
Arkangel is the second episode of Black Mirror Series 4, and is also the name of the tech company providing an intriguing trial device for worried mothers of small children. Dom RobinsonReviewer of movies, videogames …
Continue readingMechanic Resurrection on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Mechanic Resurrection? Well, yes, Jason Statham‘s character pretended to die at the end of the first one, but no-one really tries to bury a potential franchise from the off. Still, would it make any difference …
Continue readingThe Accountant – add-and-subtract is just so matter-of-fact – The DVDfever Cinema Review
The Accountant stars Ben Affleck in the titular occupation as Christian Wolff, a man who suffers from Asperger’s Syndrome. I don’t know if the depiction of autism in this film was realistic, but throughout the …
Continue readingG.I. Joe Retaliation IMAX 3D – The DVDfever Cinema Review
G.I. Joe Retaliation – Hmm… at first this film seemed like it was bordering on the verge of Capricorn One territory when, early on, almost all of the ‘Joes’ are wiped out in an attack …
Continue readingStolen – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Stolen opens with a great sequence with Will Montomery (Nicolas Cage) committing a $10m heist with Vincent (Josh Lucas), seemingly unknowingly while being watched by the FBI, while partners-in-crime Riley (Malin Akerman) and Hoyt (M.C. …
Continue readingThe Mechanic (2011) on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
The Mechanic: Now, are you familiar with the works of Oscar Wilde? Because Jason Statham isn’t. He plays Arthur Bishop, a cold, emotionless hitman who does his best to make the hits look like accidents, …
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