The Killing of a Sacred Deer is one of those films where I just didn’t *get* the title and the trailer at first, but as soon as I saw it was made by Yorgos Lanthimos, …
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The Dark Crystal Deluxe Edition on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review – includes Blu-ray & 4K Unboxings!
The Dark Crystal is one of those films I was never into back in the day, but on viewing just over 35 years later, in this Deluxe Edition, I can see how so much work …
Continue readingBreathe on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Breathe tells the true story of Robin Cavendish (Andrew Garfield) and his wife, Diana (Claire Foy). Just as life is beginning for them as a married couple, with a baby on the way, he’s struck …
Continue readingAfter The Storm – Hirokazu Koreeda Family Values Boxset on Blu-ray and DVD combo – The DVDfever Review
After The Storm centres around unrepetentant gambler Ryôta Shinoda (Hiroshi Abe), who’s obviously short of money, but doesn’t want to lose too much else now that his father has passed away, and he’s becoming increasingly …
Continue readingLike Father, Like Son – Hirokazu Koreeda Family Values Boxset on Blu-ray and DVD combo – The DVDfever Review
Like Father, Like Son initially centres around workaholic father Ryota Nonomiya (Fukuyama Masaharu), his put-upon wife Midori (Ono Machiko) and their 6-year-old son, Keita (Keita Ninomiya), with a family life that can just about be …
Continue readingJigsaw on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Jigsaw is a movie I’ve been waiting for almost 40 years for, every since the TV series I watched as a child, on BBC1 from 1979, with Adrian Hedley, Wilf Lunn and Janet Ellis… oh, …
Continue readingI, Tonya – The DVDfever Cinema Review
I, Tonya centres around Olympic figure-skater Tonya Harding (Suicide Squad‘s Margot Robbie) and Jeff Gillooly, her violent ex-husband, played by Sebastian Stan, who plays Bucky O’Hare in the Marvel movies, including Captain America: Civil War, …
Continue readingI Wish – Hirokazu Koreeda Family Values Boxset on Blu-ray and DVD combo – The DVDfever Review
I Wish is the first title in the Hirokazu Koreeda Family Values Blu-ray triple boxset, and it tells a bizarre tale about a volcano which is about to erupt over the Japanese town of Kigoshima, …
Continue readingThe Housemaid on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
The Housemaid centres around the fact that someone’s done a murder and bumped off Captain Sebastien Laurent (Jean-Michel Richaud), but with four members of staff at the French plantation, Sa-Cat, namely Mrs Han (Kim Xuan), …
Continue readingIce Cold In Alex 60th Anniversary Edition on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Ice Cold In Alex is, before now, a film from which I’ve only seen one scene over and over and over… when John Mills is drinking Carlsberg and everyone else is staring at him. The …
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