The Magician’s Elephant is a new Netflix animation, where people in the town of Baltese have suddenly just stopped believing in magic, causing the town to go from being vibrant and colourful, to change and …
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Cocaine Bear – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Ray Liotta, Elizabeth Banks
Cocaine Bear – Yes, it’s as ridiculous as it sounds, BUT, it was based on a true story, apparently. In 1985, Andrew Thornton (Matthew Rhys) is throwing cocaine packages out of a plane, attempts to …
Continue readingHello Tomorrow! – The DVDfever Review – Apple TV+ – Billy Crudup
Hello Tomorrow! is a new Apple TV+ drama, starring Billy Crudup (The Morning Show) as Jack Billings, a smarmy travelling salesman who sells timeshares based on the moon, even to an overworked old man who …
Continue readingHOOPS – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Jake Johnson
HOOPS (yes, all in capitals – I didn’t just fall on my keyboard) is a new animated series starring Jake Johnson from Let’s Be Cops and Jurassic World, who plays basketball coach Ben Hopkins, and …
Continue readingTiger King – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Joe Exotic
Tiger King is a documentary I missed on its release, but even over three weeks later, it’s still being talked about so I though I’d give it a look. The titular individual calls himself Joe …
Continue readingThe Lego Movie 2: The Second Part 3D on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part 3D is out now, with a 2D version for those without the requisite equipment, and after the original The LEGO Movie 3D was a good film, is the …
Continue readingWhat We Do In The Shadows 2019 Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review – Taika Waititi
What We Do in the Shadows follows a quartet of vampires who’ve lived together for centuries, on Staten Island, and is the second programme starting on the BBC tonight (following BBC1’s Gentleman Jack), which has …
Continue readingHolmes And Watson on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Holmes And Watson: When I first saw the trailer for this, it looked pretty terrible. I’m not a Will Ferrell-does-comedy fan which doesn’t help, but John C Reilly is usually worth a watch. However, as …
Continue readingDisenchantment Episodes 1-3 – The DVDfever Review – Netflix
Disenchantment is the latest creation from The Simpsons and Futurama head honcho Matt Groening. Set in Medieval times, in a fantasy kingdom called Dreamland, it centres around Tiabeanie – aka Bean (Abbi Jacobson), a hard-drinking …
Continue readingThor: Ragnarok – The DVDfever Review
Thor: Ragnarok begins by explaining the title when Surtur (Clancy Brown) tells Thor (Chris Hemsworth) that Ragnarok is coming, which means the end of all things, but the humour kicks in early as our hero’s …
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