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Tale Of Tales is a film from Matteo Garrone, who co-wrote the screenplay, based on 17th century Italian poet Giambattista Basile‘s The Pentamerone, which translates as “The Tale of Tales, or Entertainment for Little Ones”), …
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Category: Blu-ray
Midnight Special on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Midnight Special is one of those films that didn’t grab me from the trailer but then I read only good word about it. The brief premise is that a young boy called Alton (Jaeden Lieberher) …
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Solaris on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Solaris is the name of a space station where a lot of weird stuff has been happening, sending some of the crew insane. Psychologist Kris Kelvin (Donatas Banionis) is about to take a trip up …
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Eddie The Eagle on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Eddie The Eagle is a film that the man in question has been looking to make for about 17 years, and looked great from the trailers, but fell strangely fairly flat in the full telling, …
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Sing Street on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Sing Street is the sort of film that has a well-worn tale, but it’s the brilliance in which it all comes together that grabs your attention and rarely lets go. With his rowing parents on …
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Poor Cow on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Poor Cow was Ken Loach‘s first feature-length movie and this is the first time I’ve seen it – another in a long line of films I’ve never got round to seeing until their Blu-ray debut. …
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Absolute Beginners: 30th Anniversary Edition on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Absolute Beginners is one of many Blu-ray premieres released, over the past few years, where I completely missed them first time round. This was largely because it wasn’t the sort of thing I was going …
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High-Rise on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
High-Rise is classed as one of those ‘unfilmable novels’, although I don’t read books, probably having been put off early in life by being given Duncton Wood to read while I was in hospital. It …
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Mustang on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Mustang centres on Lale (Günes Sensoy), a young girl growing up with her sisters, and living with their grandmother and uncle, both being particularly harsh on them after having looked after them for 10 years, …
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Queen Of Earth on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Queen Of Earth is a strong drama about how long-term friendships don’t always last. This will happen to all of us at some point. You’re inseparable or, at least, can’t imagine life without them, and …
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