The Outrun is effectively a dramatised biography for novelist and co-screenwriter Amy Liptrot, and her yoyo-ing in and out of alcoholism in real life, such as showing Rona (Saoirse Ronan – See How They Run) …
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Vigil – The DVDfever Review – Martin Compston, Suranne Jones
Vigil begins with a trawler boat ending up in a pickle, catching onto something and being dragged underwater. Those on the submarine have a chance to do something about rescuing the men, with DCI Steve …
Continue readingStephen – The DVDfever Review – Steve Coogan – ITV drama
Stephen follows on from 1999’s movie-length The Murder of Stephen Lawrence, which I haven’t seen in full, but I am obviously aware of all the events that happened. This three-part series is set in 2006, …
Continue readingOutlaw King – Trailer 2 – Chris Pine
Outlaw King is a forthcoming Netflix film which stars Star Trek Beyond‘s Chris Pine as… Robert The Bruce… yes, I know. Stop laughing at the back. It tells the untold, true story of the man …
Continue readingMary Shelley – Trailer 1 – Elle Fanning
Mary Shelley (Elle Fanning) wrote the hit horror novel Frankenstein, and this movie tells of the love affair between poet Percy Shelley (Douglas Booth) and 18-year-old Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, which resulted in Ms Shelley writing …
Continue readingDarkest Hour – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Good Gary. Film Failure
Darkest Hour gives Gary Oldman a turn as Prime Minister Winston Churchill, after Brian Cox’s Churchill last year, but with Oldman as the man at the time of the Dunkirk evacuations, so incredibly portrayed last …
Continue readingDarkest Hour – Trailer 2 – Gary Oldman
Darkest Hour follows Churchill and Dunkirk, making me wonder if, like with Marvel and DC, someone’s trying to start their own Winston Churchill movie franchise… Imagine it: First, there was the Marvel Cinematic Universe, then …
Continue readingDarkest Hour – Trailer 1 – Gary Oldman
Darkest Hour follows Churchill and Dunkirk, making me wonder if, like with Marvel and DC, someone’s trying to start their own Winston Churchill movie franchise… Imagine it: First, there was the Marvel Cinematic Universe, then …
Continue readingZero Dark Thirty – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Zero Dark Thirty begins in 2003 with the torture, ahem, discussion, with captured terrorist, Ammar (Reda Kateb), a man who was caught because his name is linked to a $5,000 Western Union transfer to a …
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