The Power is a new 9-part series on Prime Video, where a streaming service tells us it’s time, again, another Young Adult novel brought to the small screen. The essence is that, for reasons unexplained, …
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The Staircase – The DVDfever Review – Sky Atlantic – Colin Firth
The Staircase is a new drama based on the real life death of Kathleen Peterson (Toni Collette – Pieces Of Her), who, in December 2001, was found at death’s door at the bottom of the …
Continue readingPieces Of Her – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Toni Collette
Pieces of Her centres around the fractured relationship between Andy Oliver (Bella Heathcote), a young woman turning 30, who works in a 911 phone line in the small town of Belle Isle, and she moved …
Continue readingDream Horse – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Toni Collette, Damian Lewis
Dream Horse centres around bored checkout operator Jan (Toni Collette – Stowaway), who dreams of owning and breeding a horse, and with the help of crowdfunding from her neighbours, she’ll manage it, but can she …
Continue readingStowaway – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Anna Kendrick, Toni Collette
Stowaway begins with what feels like the most ridiculous of premises in that a crew going to Mars has just three individuals on it. Really?! Even last year’s Away had at least seven on board …
Continue readingi’m thinking of ending things – The DVDfever Review – Charlie Kaufman – Netflix
i’m thinking of ending things is what’s going through the mind of the young woman – referred to as such in the credits, albeit named both Lucy and Louisa during the film – played by …
Continue readingVelvet Buzzsaw – The DVDfever Cinema / Netflix Review – Jake Gyllenhaal
Velvet Buzzsaw looked, from the trailer, like Netflix has knocked it out of the park again, as it teams up Nightcrawler (one of the best films of its year) with its effervescent star Jake Gyllenhaal, …
Continue readingMadame on DVD – The DVDfever Review
Madame may boast Toni Collette (Wanderlust) and Harvey Keitel (Reservoir Dogs) as its leads, Anne and Bob, a well-off American couple who are about to host a big dinner for lots of people, but the …
Continue readingWanderlust Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review – Toni Collette
Wanderlust made me think it was going to go the way of David Cronenberg’s Crash, at first, as Joy (Toni Colette) was shown being involved in a car crash when someone whacked into her bike …
Continue readingThe Yellow Birds – Trailer 1 – Alden Ehrenreich
The Yellow Birds is a title that keeps making me think of the hot coffee drink “Mellow Birds”, and I’ll never get over that, but anyhoo… it centres around two young solders, Brandon Bartle (Alden …
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