“Jaws” in car form is how The Car has been described, so I took this ’70s action film for a test-drive and… oh, I can’t be doing with car puns. I’m too tyred. The premise …
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World War Z – The DVDfever Cinema review
World War Z quickly gets you into the action after a brief introduction to Gerry Lane (Brad Pitt) and plus his wife Karin and two daughters (all played by no-one famous). While stuck in a …
Continue readingA Field In England – The DVDfever Review
A Field in England is a film that, I had a feeling would be an odd little movie and, on that score, I certainly wasn’t disappointed. Set in 1648, during the English Civil War, Whitehead …
Continue readingSimple Men on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review – Hal Hartley
Simple Men follows on from the release of another Hal Hartley Blu-ray debut, Amateur. It begins as Bill McCabe (Robert John Burke) conducts a robbery with Frank (James Hansen Prince) and Vera (Mary McKenzie), but …
Continue readingSpirited Away on DVD – The DVDfever Review
Spirited Away, directed by Hayao Miyazaki, has to be one of the best – if not the best ever animated movie of all time. So if, by some quirk of fate, this masterpiece happens to …
Continue readingMan of Steel – The DVDfever Cinema review
Man of Steel is a film I went into, not expecting great things based on the reviews I’d read and heard. Sometimes, it’s good to lower your expectations because when a film turned out to …
Continue readingWelcome To The Punch on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Welcome To The Punch begins where Sternwood (Mark Strong) and co have just pulled off a robbery and Max (James MacAvoy) is hot on their tails, but is warned not to go after them unarmed. …
Continue readingA Good Day To Die Hard on Blu-ray – The DVDfever review
A Good Day To Die Hard begins with bad guy Yuri Komarov (Sebastian Koch) languishing in jail until he gives another bad guy what he wants, namely a file on some other bad guy called …
Continue readingBehind The Candelabra – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Steven Soderbergh said he was planning to quit directing movies after Side Effects, but then along comes the mostly engaging Behind the Candelabra, although it’s a film which he’s been planning to make for some …
Continue readingFlight on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Most movies starring A-list actors come out around the same time as their U.S. release, but when it came to Flight, it was released over here at the start of February just it was due …
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