The Marvels continues Marvel’s Phase Five not with a bang, but with a whimper, following the poor Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, and the third volume to the usually mediocre Guardians of the Galaxy. As …
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Velvet 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 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 readingGuerrilla: The Complete Series – The DVDfever Review – Idris Elba drama
Guerrilla is set in London, 1971, a time of racism and white people against black people, a time I’d like to think we’ve got far away from, although even today, the police are stuck in …
Continue readingInto The Dalek – Doctor Who: Series 8 Episode 2 – The DVDfever Review
Into the Dalek begins with The Doctor picking up Journey Blue (Fresh Meat‘s Zawe Ashton) from her ship, Aristotle, just before it’s been destroyed, and in trying to help, he winds up in a hospital …
Continue readingLondon Film Festival 2011 Part 3: The DVDfever Awards (Oct 12th-27th)
AND THE AWARD GOES TO… This was such a richly rewarding London Film Festival that DVDfever split its retrospective coverage in three. In the first two, longer instalments we looked in depth at the movies …
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