Allegiant is the third film in the Divergent series where, like with The Hunger Games, the final one of three books was divided into two when it came to the movies. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay …
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Anomalisa on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Anomalisa centres around Michael Stone (David Thewlis), a man in his 50s, and a self-help guru who has travelled to Cincinatti to give a talk on customer service. His life is boring and he can’t …
Continue readingHighlander 30th Anniversary Edition on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Highlander is a film I’ve seen a couple of times before now, but it’s been a long time since I last saw it and, 30 years on from its theatrical release, it’s good to reconnect …
Continue readingThe Swinging Cheerleaders on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
The Swinging Cheerleaders is a film which promised a lot more from the title than the content delivered. Kate (Jo Johnston) writes for her college newspaper and wants to get on her feminist soapbox about …
Continue readingSon of Saul on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Son of Saul leads with Saul Ausländer (Géza Röhrig) as one of the ‘Sonderkommando’, a term used for a certain group of prisoners who lived separate from the rest of the prisoners at Auschwitz. Set …
Continue readingGrimsby on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review – Uncut 18-certificate version
Grimsby started off with a better title, in my eyes – The Brothers Grimsby, it being a play on the Brothers Grimm, even though it’s not a fairy tale, so perhaps that’s why they changed …
Continue readingReturn of the Killer Tomatoes on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Return of the Killer Tomatoes is the first film I watched after Andrei Tarkovsky’s Ivan’s Childhood, and the two films couldn’t be any more different. I have to say, at this point, that I have …
Continue readingIvan’s Childhood on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Ivan’s Childhood centres around twelve-year-old Ivan (Nikolay Burlyaev), who gets involved with the Russians in World War II, acting as a scout for them behind German enemy lines. I found it a bit odd to …
Continue readingTriple 9 on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Triple 9 centres around a four-man gang of ne’er-do-wells, headstrong Mike (Chiwetel Ejiofor – Doctor Strange, The Martian), junkie Gabe (Aaron Paul – Need For Speed, Central Intelligence) and two corrupt cops, Marcus (Anthony Mackie …
Continue readingDad’s Army (2016) on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Dad’s Army – the sheer mention of a movie remake of a once-classic TV series was enough to strike fear into the hearts of the nation. Probably more so than the threat of another World …
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