Skip to content
Melancholia starts with a number of very slo-mo shots, nothing making particular sense – at this point, even if I was to try and describe them, such as a horse falling down backwards, a woman …
Continue reading
Category: Movies
The Guard on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
The Guard: It’s not long into this film before we realise just how unorthodox the behaviours are of Sergeant Gerry Boyle (Brendan Gleeson) when he disturbs a crime scene by taking some pieces of paper …
Continue reading
Kill List on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Kill List gets off to a powerful start with a domestic row between ex-soldier Jay (Neil Maskell, below) and Shel (MyAnna Buring, bottom picture) about… well, what do married couples usually argue about? Money. The …
Continue reading
Howard Jones Live – Human’s Lib and Dream Into Action at the Indigo2, London on DVD – The DVDfever Review
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 …
Continue reading
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 reading
The 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 reading
London 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 reading
London 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 reading
Horrible 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 reading
Bad 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 reading