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 …
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X-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 …
Continue readingThe Woman on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
The Woman begins with the appearance of a grubby woman’s midriff onscreen and her stroking her blood-smeared stomach. As the camera zooms out we see she’s been stabbed and is trying to clean the wound. …
Continue readingEmpire of Passion on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Empire of Passion (aka Ai No Borei), is the sequel to 1976’s In The Realm Of The Senses, but while it deals with sex, it’s not exactly as ground-breaking as its prequel. In fact, it …
Continue readingIn The Realm of the Senses on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
In The Realm Of The Senses (aka Ai No Corrida), also probably known as John Wayne Bobbitt’s least-favourite film, for reasons that will become apparent, is a strange sexual tale of lust, adultery and why …
Continue readingA Film With Me In It on DVD – The DVDfever Review
A Film With Me In It doesn’t star me, but instead leads with Dylan Moran, Mark Doherty, Amy Huberman and Keith Allen. Pierce (Dylan Moran) is an alcoholic – who doesn’t exactly get a lot …
Continue readingBlood Runs Cold on DVD – The DVDfever Review
Blood Runs Cold begins with a man lying face down in the snow, seemingly dead at first, but instead he’s bleeding profusely from wounds which we quickly gather were caused by the axe being held …
Continue readingJurassic Park (2011 re-release) – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Jurassic Park: The world is a happy place. This film is just as I remember it. Big, noisy and pretty damned scary for a PG. This year, I have apparently shocked a few people with …
Continue readingKill The Irishman on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Kill The Irishman: It’s Cleveland, 1975 and Danny Greene (Ray Stevenson) is clearly a guy some people don’t like. While driving along, his Cadillac’s radio starts to short out and he immediately attempts to jump …
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