The Pale Blue Eye is a new Netflix movie where, under the notification from Captain Hitchcock (Simon McBurney), Augustus Landor (Christian Bale) is tasked by Superintendent Thayer (Timothy Spall) to investigate the mysterious death, and …
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Hustle – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Adam Sandler
Hustle is a new drama starring Adam Sandler…. no, don’t run off! He proved in 2019’s Uncut Gems that he can really pull of a gritty, dramatic role, and that follows on from 2002’s Punch …
Continue readingWidows – Trailer 2 – Viola Davis
Widows adapts the 1983 Lynda La Plante TV series, but updates it by putting it in Chicago and adding in big explosions. And now, a second trailer has been released. Widows has been brought forward …
Continue readingIn Dubious Battle Trailer 1 – James Franco
In Dubious Battle centres around an activist who gets caught up in the labour movement for farm workers in California during the 1930s. Starring and directed by James Franco, with a screenplay by Matt Rager …
Continue readingColors on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Colors begins with the text opener that there are 250 cops and sheriffs in Los Angeles to deal with 600 street gangs totalling 70,000 individuals. The police unit is known as C.R.A.S.H. – Cops Rallying …
Continue readingWild Horses – Official Trailer #1 – Josh Hartnett, James Franco
Wild Horses is a film written for the screen, directed by and starring Robert Duvall, his first directed film since 2002’s Assassination Tango. Remember that one? No, neither does anyone else. This film is about …
Continue readingNetwork Special Edition on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Network is one of those classic films I haven’t seen until now, this one being centered around Howard Beale (Peter Finch), a fantastically successful newscaster whose luck started to change in 1969 when his ratings …
Continue readingInvasion of the Body Snatchers: Special Edition on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Invasion of the Body Snatchers begins with spores leaving a distant planet and heading for San Francisco, transpiring into raindrops which hit the leaves of plants and spawn weird, but pretty, rose-like flowers. Public health …
Continue readingJack Reacher on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review – Uncut 15-certificate version
Jack Reacher: I don’t read books, so prior to this film’s release, I had never heard of the series before. And Tom Cruise usually makes a good fist of an action movie, so I figured …
Continue readingApocalypse Now Redux on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Apocalypse Now Redux: Bizarre and captivating are two words I can use to describe this film. Francis Ford Coppola‘s contribution to the Vietnam war films which has neither opening, nor official closing credits. In fact, …
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