Howard Jones Live – Human’s Lib and Dream Into Action at the Indigo2, London: When it comes to Howard Jones performing these two albums, I expected the albums to come one after the other, in …
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The Devil’s Double on DVD – The DVDfever Review
The Devil’s Double begins with Latif Yahia (Dominic Cooper, below) being driven to meet one of Saddam Hussein’s sons, Uday. It soon becomes clear to us that they are more than just a little bit …
Continue readingThe London Korean Film Festival 2011 – The DVDfever Review
The London Korean Film Festival 2011: Right now it seems as if there’s a film festival for every genre and every country. But I can honestly say that the recent 2011 Korean Film Festival – …
Continue readingLondon Film Festival 2011 Part 3: The DVDfever Awards (Oct 12th-27th)
AND THE AWARD GOES TO… This was such a richly rewarding London Film Festival that DVDfever split its retrospective coverage in three. In the first two, longer instalments we looked in depth at the movies …
Continue readingLondon Film Festival 2011 Part 2: Imported Gems (Oct 12th-27th)
London Film Festival 2011 Part 2: Imported Gems: Welcome to the second part of DVDfever’s London Film Festival retrospective. Last time we looked at the big budget and indie movies from the US and UK. …
Continue readingHorrible Bosses: Totally Inappropriate Edition on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Horrible Bosses begins with stockbroker Nick Hendricks (Jason Bateman) telling us in a voiceover that in a lot of businesses no-one ever likes to take shit from anyone, and that such a design for life …
Continue readingBad Teacher on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Bad Teacher is obviously about Cameron Diaz playing a teacher, in this case by the name of Elizabeth Halsey, but at the start of the film, she’s actually leaving John Adams Middle School, known as …
Continue readingLondon Film Festival 2011 Part 1: The Big Fellas (Oct 12th-27th)
London Film Festival 2011 Part 1: The Big Fellas: We’re going to mix it up a bit for this year’s look back over the London Film Festival. In fact, we’ve got so much to say …
Continue readingX-Men First Class on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
X-Men First Class begins back in Poland, 1944 like the opening of the first X-Men film, where a young Erik is seen attempting to open the gates at Auschwitz through special powers. Cut to Westchester, …
Continue readingMimic Director’s Cut on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Mimic is one of those films I have always meant to get round to watching, not least because it stars the achingly gorgeous Mira Sorvino in the lead role, and it also highlights the time …
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