Rollerball is 40 years old this year, and is another of those classic movies which Arrow are bringing to the small screen with the Special Edition Blu-ray treatment. Set in the near future, Jonathan E …
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The Drop on DVD – The DVDfever Review
The Drop is set in a bar in Brooklyn, where everyone effects a ‘New Yoik’ accent, regardless of whether they’re the late, great James Gandolfini, or London-born Tom Hardy. It starts with a group commiserating …
Continue readingThe Gunman – The DVDfever Cinema Review
The Gunman stars Sean Penn in the lead role as action man Jim Terrier. He’s one of a number of men, involved in an operation far away, where they all did very bad things that …
Continue readingNetwork Special Edition on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Network is one of those classic films I haven’t seen until now, this one being centered around Howard Beale (Peter Finch), a fantastically successful newscaster whose luck started to change in 1969 when his ratings …
Continue readingPaddington on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Paddington is the one about the bear from darkest Peru who came to live with the Brown family in London, whilst having a fetish for marmalade sandwiches. From his origins in book form in 1958, …
Continue readingFortitude Episode 9 – The DVDfever Review
Fortitude Episode 9 begins by showing us Ronnie’s brutal murder but not showing who did the deed. Was it Frank? Then we cut to Liam, having spent most of the series in that bloody hyperbaric …
Continue readingThe Hunger Games Mockingjay Part 1 on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
The Hunger Games Mockingjay Part 1 continues the story of Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) and her uprising against the fascist state, and President Snow (Donald Sutherland) is off on his high horse trying to stamp …
Continue readingHorns – uncut 18-certificate version on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Horns stars Harry Potter‘s Daniel Radcliffe as Ig Perrish, a young man in his mid-20s with a big problem – someone has murdered his childhood sweetheart, Merrin Williams (Juno Temple, who is about as close …
Continue readingLeviathan on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Leviathan is set in the Russian coastal town of Pribrezhny where put-upon manual labourer, Kolya (Aleksey Serebryakov, giving a fantastic performance), has more than enough on his plate to make a man finally snap. The …
Continue readingThe Imitation Game on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
The Imitation Game begins in 1951 with Detective Nock (The Casual Vacancy‘s Rory Kinnear) and Sgt Staehl (Ideal‘s Tom Goodman-Hill) turn up to the reported break-in at Alan Turing’s house, where he’s reluctant to talk …
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