16 Blocks stars Bruce Willis plays Detective Jack Mosley, a worn-out cop with an alcohol problem and the title comes from the fact that he’s got just 118 minutes (not in real time, before you …
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Along Came Polly on DVD – The DVDfever Review – Jennifer Aniston
Along Came Polly stars Jennifer Aniston, whose films fall into two categories – “Rachel from Friends” and “well worth watching”. Sadly, this is not the latter, although the only one that did hit the spot …
Continue readingSex Lives of the Potato Men on DVD – The DVDfever Review
If there was ever a film with unfair criticism heaped upon it by those who had never seen it, it was this year’s British comedy Sex Lives of the Potato Men. That’s not to say …
Continue readingEightball on DVD – The DVDfever Review
Eightball is a low-budget movie and the first feature-length one for writer/director Robert Allison. The plot is far from an original one as hitman Jon (Max Woollen, bottom-right) plans to do one last job before …
Continue readingX-Men 2: Special Edition on DVD – The DVDfever Review
X-Men 2: I’ve never read an X-Men comic, didn’t think much of the first film as it just washed over me completely and so I really wasn’t expecting a great deal from this sequel. Thankfully, …
Continue readingAbout Schmidt on DVD – The DVDfever Review
About Schmidt: Warren R. Schmidt has retired, and he’s at a loss. He’s been married to the same woman for 42 years and has been working in the same job for as long as he …
Continue readingAdaptation on DVD – The DVDfever Review – Nicolas Cage, Spike Jonze
Adaptation shows Spike Jonze is not known for being the most straight-forward director. I hugely enjoyed his previous main feature, Being John Malkovich, although it wasn’t perfect. Then when you watch his latest work, Adaptation, …
Continue reading28 Days Later on DVD – The DVDfever Review
Animal rights activists break into a lab where monkeys are being tested on, attack the scientist (I’m Alan Partridge‘s Tony Hayers, David Schneider) and release the caged creatures. However, they’ve been deliberately infected with ‘Rage’ …
Continue readingJam: The Complete Series on DVD – Chris Morris – The DVDfever Review
Jam was Chris Morris‘ TV version, to a point, of his Radio 1 show “Blue Jam”, something which I tried to listen to but could never get into. Back then I found TV a more …
Continue readingOne Hour Photo on DVD – The DVDfever Review
One Hour Photo is the sort of shop you’d need if you want your snaps developed quickly. Most people do a good enough job in their own vocation in life to get by, but Sy …
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