The Physician is set in the 11th Century, at a time when modern day hospitals are way off and the great unwashed have to rely on travelling barbes with poor knowledge. Meanwhile, an NHS, of …
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Everest IMAX 3D – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Everest is the tale of how Ted Moult built up his famous double-glazing company… Well, at least that’s what I was led to believe… (not really). As of 1992, it had become a business for …
Continue readingJohn Wick on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
John Wick says, “People keep asking am I back? Well, yeah! I’m thinking I’m back!” Back from where? We’ve never heard of you before, Mr Wick! In fact, he’s got to come back from the …
Continue readingBig Game on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Big Game begins with 13-year-old Oskari (Onni Tommila) living in the woods with his father. His Dad is one of those movie Dads who gives a lot of important instruction to his child at the …
Continue readingGirlhood on DVD – The DVDfever Review
Girlhood tells the coming-of-age tale of Marieme (Karidja Touré, below-right), a 16-year-old girl in a rough Parisian neighbourhood still trying to find where she belongs in the pecking order of life. In looking after her …
Continue readingZardoz Special Edition on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Zardoz stars Sean Connery as Zed. He understands that Zardoz says if you obey him then you’ll go to a vortex when you die and live forever. So, Zed’s dead? This is another of those …
Continue readingEaten Alive (1976) Special Edition on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Eaten Alive, directed by Tobe Hooper, is not to be confused with 1980’s horror movie of the same name, which was directed by Nightmare City‘s Umberto Lenzi that same year, even if the plot is …
Continue readingMississippi Burning on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Mississippi Burning is set in 1964, at a time when attitudes in the world were shamefully backwards in just how racist they were. It would be another year before Martin Luther King’s landmark walk in …
Continue readingMadman Special Edition on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Madman begins with tales around the summer camp campfire before bedtime on Halloween, the last one being told by Max (Carl Fredericks) about Madman Marz who quietly killed his family with an axe, was eventually …
Continue readingNightmare City Special Edition on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Nightmare City – there are zombie films, and then there are zombies who have knives! And machetes! And axes! And those that just rip your face off. Although made in 1980, since a lot of …
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