The Burning Girls starts off in 1556, in the Chapel Croft Village, Sussex, where two girls are being burned at the stake. So, not exactly a family-friendly start to the proceedings, and then fast-forward to …
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The Whale – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Brendan Fraser, Sadie Sink
The Whale is centered around English tutor Charlie (Brendan Fraser), living in Idaho, working from home, and who never goes on camera, claiming it’s broken. As we can see from the start – and in …
Continue readingShe Said – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Carey Mulligan, Zoe Kazan
She Said begins in Ireland, 1992, when a young actress goes to work on a film set on a beach… and is then seen running away, scared and in floods of tears. The film, in …
Continue readingThe Serpent Queen – The DVDfever Review – Starzplay – Samantha Morton
The Serpent Queen is set in France, beginning in 1560, where Queen Catherine De Medici (the brilliant Samantha Morton – I Am Kirsty, Save The Cinema) reigns with terror… rather like the Tories in the …
Continue readingSave The Cinema – The DVDfever Review – Sky Cinema – Samantha Morton
Save The Cinema is a new Sky Cinema film set in the ’90s, even though early on, we get The Waterboys’ Whole Of The Moon – from 1985 – blaring out. Then again, it did …
Continue readingI Am Kirsty – The DVDfever Review – Samantha Morton
I Am Kirsty sees the lead portrayed by Samantha Morton (Two For Joy, Minority Report), a busy mother of two girls, and dealing with an absolute b’stard of an other half, Steve, as we see …
Continue readingTwo For Joy – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Daniel Mays
Two For Joy begins with the last day of school for Vi (Emilia Jones, daughter of Aled Jones and she was brilliant opposite Guy Pearce in Brimstone), but life is far from easy for her. …
Continue readingRillington Place: Complete Series – The DVDfever Review – Tim Roth
Rillington Place takes place before, during and after World War II, and centres around serial killer John Christie, in a tale that’s been told previously as 10 Rillington Place, starring Richard Attenborough, a film I’d …
Continue readingFantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them – Fantastic Fun! – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them is the first in a new five-movie series set in JK Rowling‘s Harry Potter universe, a franchise I never got round to seeing, although I’ve always intended to …
Continue readingFantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them – Official Trailer 2
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is JK Rowling‘s latest foray into fantasy nonsense, telling the adventures of writer Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) in New York’s secret community of witches and wizards, seventy years …
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