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Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol: The ‘Ghost Protocol’ part of the title makes it sound super-cool and exciting, but in reality, it’s just a coded way of saying that the entire Impossible Mission Force (IMF) have …
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Category: Blu-ray
Braquo Season 1 on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Braquo Season 1, aka ‘Heist’, begins with Farid Benaissa (Adrien Saint-Joré), a prisoner denying that he and his friend raped a pregnant woman. He also refuses to give up his friend’s name, so cop Max …
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Justice on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Justice begins with a man being interviewed on camera, saying just a little and then his car is rammed off the top of a multi-storey car park and taking him to an early death. While …
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Snowtown on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Snowtown is set in the late 1990s, and begins with 16-year-old Jamie Vlassakis (Lucas Pittaway) living a very disatisfying home life. It’s bad enough that his parents are no longer together, but the man his …
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50/50 on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
50/50 is a film I wasn’t sure whether or not I would like, given how its premise didn’t seem to fit any kind of comedy bill, but I was very pleasantly surprised. When Adam (Joseph …
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We Need To Talk About Kevin on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
We Need To Talk About Kevin is a film I’d heard a lot of great things about prior to watching it, not least from Mark Kermode who declared it his favourite film of 2011. While …
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Tyrannosaur on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Tyrannosaur: When the menu appears for this film, it features a long shot of a house with, buried just below, the bones of a Tyrannosaurus Rex. This is no venture for the Time Team, but …
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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – I’ll start this review by the admission that I have never seen the original series, so cannot compare Gary Oldman to Alec Guinness, even though it feels like the former …
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Rolling Thunder on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Rolling Thunder stars William Devane as Major Charles Rane, who comes home from Vietnam after spending seven years in a prisoner of war camp and greets his young son who barely remembers him from before …
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Melancholia on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Melancholia starts with a number of very slo-mo shots, nothing making particular sense – at this point, even if I was to try and describe them, such as a horse falling down backwards, a woman …
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