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 …
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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 readingKill 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 readingHoward 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 readingThe 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: 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 readingAND 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: 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 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 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: 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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