I, Daniel Blake begins with the 59-year-old carpenter titular character, portrayed by comedian Dave Johns, applying for ESA (Employment and Support Allowance), and being asked a succession of – irrelevant, to him – questions when …
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I Am Not A Serial Killer on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
I Am Not A Serial Killer, so claims teenager John Wayne Cleaver (Max Records), but if that’s the case, who’s doing away with half the town, with the film first showing us a dead body …
Continue readingMiss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children begins with a preamble where Jake (Asa Butterfield) dotes on his elderly grandfather, Abe (Terence Stamp), who – after being attacked – he tells him to get away to …
Continue readingThe Girl On The Train on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
The Girl On The Train stars Emily Blunt as Rachel, the titular lady and functioning alcoholic, staring out from her train cabin, spotting the young woman who leans out of 15 Beckett Road, and over-imagining …
Continue readingRaising Cain Director’s Cut Special Edition on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Raising Cain is a film I loved first time I saw it, but since it’s been a long time since then, and with this new release featuring both versions, I delved straight into the director’s …
Continue readingThe Childhood of a Leader on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
The Childhood of a Leader is a bizarre film set in an alternate world where the Third Reich, as we know it, aren’t going to come to power one day, but they may as well …
Continue readingHell Comes To Frogtown on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Hell Comes To Frogtown is centred in a world where nuclear war came and went after the government bigwigs through it would solve all problems and just require a few bombs going back and forth …
Continue readingHellgate on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Hellgate begins with an old man finding a weird crystal in a cave which can bring things back to life – rather handy when introduced to Lucas Carlyle (Carel Trichardt), whose daughter, Josie (Abigail Wolcott, …
Continue readingThe Initiation on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review – Daphne Zuniga
The Initiation is what Kelly (Daphne Zuniga) goes through as she begins her time at the Delta Rho Chi student house, but we know from the start that not all her dogs are barking after …
Continue readingAssault On Precinct 13 Special Edition on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Assault On Precinct 13 is one of those all-time classic movies which I’ve never got round to watching before now, but with this 40th Anniversary release, I still went in knowing as little as possible, …
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