Mona Lisa is one of those films I hadn’t actually got round to seeing before, prior to this new Blu-ray release, which is also available as part of a Blu-ray boxset with The Long Good …
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Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery places Wayne’s World‘s Mike Myers in the title role of a James Bond spoof. The world is being held to ransom for a considerable sum by Dr. Evil (again …
Continue readingCake on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Cake begins with a therapy group coming to terms with the suicide of young mother Nina (Anna Kendrick), and instantly shows that the film will be liberally sprinkled with black humour. Claire Bennett (Jennifer Aniston) …
Continue readingWild Tales on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Wild Tales contains six stories about people whose lives really haven’t gone the way they planned, leading to a lot of it going downhill. There’s a lot that rings true in this film, as you …
Continue readingJonathan Strange And Mr Norrell: The Complete Series – The DVDfever Review
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell is a TV adaptation based on a novel by Susanna Clarke. Since I don’t read books, I’d never heard of it before, but when the trailer appeared on TV, I …
Continue readingInherent Vice on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Inherent Vice is a very bizarre film which is difficult to describe, but I’ll dig it a go. Joaquin Phoenix plays private eye Larry “Doc” Sportello, who specialises in looking for people. First he’s looking …
Continue readingSelma on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Selma is the starting point of an important march which took place in 1965, as part of Martin Luther King’s campaign in looking to secure equal voting rights for black people, following his “I Have …
Continue readingWhiplash on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Whiplash stars the relatively unknown (to me, at least) Miles Teller as Andrew, a student who loves drumming. Schaffer University music bod Terrence Fletcher (JK Simmons) also loves his drumming, as he spots the lad’s …
Continue readingThief on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Thief shows that if you think you can trust a master criminal, you’re probably wrong. Frank (James Caan) gets involved in a deal that goes down badly, and the wrong guy has his money. In …
Continue readingTaken 3 on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Taken 3 is a film I didn’t expect to be reviewing when I saw the comparatively low-budget original Taken movie, where Bryan Mills’ daughter, Kim, was kidnapped… sorry, taken. It was okay but nothing more. …
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