Acts of Vengeance looks like a film which someone intended to present in 2.35:1 like most action movies, but instead, shot it at around 16:9 and forgot to mask it to 2.35:1 in the final …
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Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle is a film that didn’t appeal to me from the trailer because… Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart. I have got rather sick of that pair. Plus, they seem to be …
Continue readingThor: Ragnarok – The DVDfever Review
Thor: Ragnarok begins by explaining the title when Surtur (Clancy Brown) tells Thor (Chris Hemsworth) that Ragnarok is coming, which means the end of all things, but the humour kicks in early as our hero’s …
Continue readingHappy End on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Happy End is the latest movie from Michael Haneke (Amour) with a lot of concurrent stories crossing over each other, beginning with the ground collapsing at a building site where Anne’s (Isabelle Huppert) son, Pierre …
Continue readingWonder on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Wonder centres around a young lad called August, better known as Auggie (Jacob Tremblay, who was superb in 2016’s Room), with a facial deformity that results in bullies making fun of him, yet he tries …
Continue readingFilm Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Film Stars Don’t Die In Liverpool is set in the Scouse city in 1981, and it wasn’t until after I saw this that I discovered it was based on a true story. I hadn’t heard …
Continue readingMcCabe and Mrs Miller: The Premium Collection on Blu-ray & DVD combo – The DVDfever Review
McCabe and Mrs Miller is one of those ‘drifter comes into town and makes big impression’ stories, a Hollywood staple over the years, and especially so in the ’70s for Westerns, particularly when they have …
Continue readingBadlands: The Premium Collection on Blu-ray & DVD combo – The DVDfever Review
Badlands is one of those films I saw many moons ago but haven’t seen since. Why? I’m not sure, since I absolutely loved it and in this new release, it was great to catch it …
Continue readingPaddington 2 on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Paddington 2: This Time It’s Personal… no, that was Jaws IV: The Revenge, but both feature individuals who are little alien in their respective environments because they’re getting hassled by ‘the man’. There’s a complex …
Continue readingCall Me By Your Name on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Call Me By Your Name takes place in Northern Italy, over the summer of 1983 and centres around 17-year-old Elio Perlman (Timothée Chalamet), and the older, Oliver (Armie Hammer), who’s hired to help Elio’s professor …
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