Skip to content
Nostalgia is another bizarre film from Andrei Tarkovsky where I had to find out what was happening from the description on IMDB, as I hadn’t the foggiest while I was watching this movie. Andrei Gorchakov …
Continue reading
Category: Movies
Matinee Special Edition on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Matinee centres around Hitchcock-like Lawrence Woolsey (John Goodman on fine form, as usual), a horror movie director-cum-showman trying to get people away from watching TV and back into the cinema. It’s 1962, and his plan …
Continue reading
Kubo And The Two Strings – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Kubo And The Two Strings broke the mould in actually making me want to go and see an animated movie on the big screen, and one that you’d think would normally be aimed at an …
Continue reading
Ben-Hur 2016 – Rodrigo Santoro, as Jesus, nails it – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Ben-Hur 2016 begins with some mad, macho-style posturing, as it fast-forwards to the eventual chariot race when brothers Judah Ben-Hur (Jack Huston) and Messala (Toby Kebbell), his brother from another mother, are at odds with …
Continue reading
Bad Moms – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Bad Moms stars Mila Kunis as Amy. She’s 32 and feeling old. At the coffee company where she works, everyone is under 25 and spends their days playing ping pong and rollerskating round the office. …
Continue reading
David Brent: Life On The Road – The DVDfever Cinema Review
David Brent: Life On The Road shows that when it comes to his character from The Office, Ricky Gervais is having the last laugh. And it’s on us. Gervais once used to make fresh, original …
Continue reading
Sweet Bean on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Sweet Bean centres around Sentarô (Mystery Train‘s Masatoshi Nagase), a man who’s as miserable a chef as I was when I used to work in a Little Chef, half a lifetime ago, looking at every …
Continue reading
Miles Ahead on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Miles Ahead‘s rather loose storyline is that journalist Dave Braben (Ewan McGregor) claims to have been sent by Rolling Stone magazine to write a story about the fact Miles has been awawy from the music …
Continue reading
The Jungle Book 3D (2016) on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
The Jungle Book is a film that needs no introduction… so, I’ll introduce the review by telling you it needs… yep, you’re already ahead of me. Mowgli (Neel Sethi) is the boy, I mean, man-cub, …
Continue reading
Stalker on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Stalker is one of those bizarre films which I found incredibly difficult to get into, and if I’m misremembering anything in my review, then that’s because trying to watch three hours of this rather pummelled …
Continue reading