Time Bandits is one of my all-time favourite films. I grew up with it and it captured my imagination. I love anything to do with time travel and this was combined with the fact that …
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Evil Dead 2013 on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
I loved the original Evil Dead movie. Anyone with a brain also did. So I had a feeling of dread at this ‘reboot’. On the plus side, it has an 18-certificate, since so many supposed …
Continue readingRED 2 – The DVDfever cinema review
Before I saw this, I heard RED 2 described as a sequel which didn’t need to be made. Now I can see why. Frank Moses (Bruce Willis) is retired (again) and living the homely life …
Continue readingThe Unbelievable Truth on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review – Hal Hartley
Josh’s (Robert Burke) hitch-hike at the start of The Unbelievable Truth comes to an abrupt halt when he tells his new passengers that he’s just been released from prison, which is rather the sort of …
Continue readingPi: 15th Anniversary Special Edition on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Pi, in theory, should be a never-ending story… Thankfully, it’s not. Max Cohen (Sean Gullette) is a very paranoid individual, obsessed in looking for the one number which somehow explains how nature works with all …
Continue readingOnly God Forgives – The DVDfever cinema review
Only God Forgives stars Ryan Gosling as Julian, a man who’s emigrated from the US to Bangkok and making a great living as a drug dealer, using a boxing club as a front for his …
Continue readingA Late Quartet on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
A Late Quartet was a great cinema experience with fantastic performances from everyone and is now out on Blu-ray & DVD, courtesy of Curzon Film World. The film begins with the band appearing on stage …
Continue readingDressed To Kill: Special Edition on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Dressed To Kill is another in a long line of classic films from Arrow, being released on Blu-ray for the first time, and which I hadn’t seen before in any form. When it comes to …
Continue readingThe World’s End – The DVDfever Cinema Review
There’s something that rang true about Simon Pegg’s character, Gary King, in the last of the Cornetto trilogy, The World’s End. And that is that we’re witness to a man who finished school in June …
Continue readingRunaway Train: Special Edition on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Runaway Train does what it says on the tin, but before we get to that, we’re introduced to hard-nut criminal Oscar ‘Manny’ Manheim (Jon Voight), who’s just being released back into the general population of …
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