Sexy Beast is an 8-part TV series based on the 2000 hit movie, which starred Ray Winstone in the lead as Gal Dove. Now with Gal portrayed by James McArdle (Andor) as a very smooth …
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The Curse – The DVDfever Review – Channel 4 – Emer Kenny
The Curse is an ’80s-set crime comedy, beginning with a prologue which mixes slamming of Thatcher’s government as she destroyed the working classes, in with the rise of the Yuppies, and how it leads to …
Continue readingSoft Top Hard Shoulder on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review – Peter Capaldi
Soft Top Hard Shoulder is one of those films which came out with little fanfare at the time, and disappeared pretty quickly, but now, in 2020, it makes its Blu-ray debut. In addition, its star …
Continue readingLost In London – The DVDfever Review – Woody Harrelson
Lost In London was fascinating from the trailer, since it’s a film that was shot in just one-take. It reminded me of the superb 2015’s Victoria, starring Laia Costa, which did the same thing, although …
Continue readingHappy New Year, Colin Burstead – The DVDfever Review
Happy New Year, Colin Burstead comes from Ben Wheatley who usually provides us rather off-the-wall movies such as Free Fire, Sightseers and A Field In England, so there’s always something going on, it’s almost always …
Continue readingBlue Iguana – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Sam Rockwell
Blue Iguana is one of those films where I’m not really sure *what* I watched, but I know I really enjoyed it, as all the scenes put one after the other don’t feel like the …
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 readingHigh-Rise on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
High-Rise is classed as one of those ‘unfilmable novels’, although I don’t read books, probably having been put off early in life by being given Duncton Wood to read while I was in hospital. It …
Continue readingSafe House Part 1 – The DVDfever Review
Safe House… Yes, they’re never particularly safe, are they? In 2012’s Safe House, we saw Ryan Reynolds trying to find one for bad guy Denzel Washington and that didn’t work out too well for either …
Continue readingDeep Breath – Doctor Who: Series 8 Episode 1 plus screenshots – The DVDfever Review
Deep Breath is the first full new episode of Doctor Who to star the superb Peter Capaldi, after his all-too-brief appearance at the end of the Christmas episode, after he regenerated from Matt Smith’s incarnation, …
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