District 9 begins with the news that the aliens first arrived in 1982, in what is basically an opening documentary-style piece. A large alien ship appears over Johannesbourg, rather than a major city, hovered there …
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2012 on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
2012 – You know what this one’s about. It’s the one where the world ends. But how? Well, in 2009, deputy geologist Dr Adrian Helmsley (Chiwetel Ejiofor) finds out from his friend in India, Dr. …
Continue reading(500) Days of Summer on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
(500) Days of Summer is an anti-love story. Well, it certainly isn’t conventional, but we begin with Tom Hansen (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), who works at a greetings card company trying to come up with new holidays …
Continue readingThe Hurt Locker on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review – Jeremy Renner
The Hurt Locker begins with a robot examining a suspect package after the town has been evicted. Uncovering the item, we see that confirms it contains a bomb. However, upon taking back some explosives to …
Continue readingTwelve Monkeys on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Twelve Monkeys stars Bruce Willis as Cole, a man living in the year 2035 as a member of the 1% of the population left on Earth, thanks to a mystery virus which swept the planet …
Continue readingThe Elephant Man on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
The Elephant Man is how John Merrick (portrayed by John Hurt, who was nominated for an Oscar and won a BAFTA for his performance) was dubbed when appearing at the local circus show, in the …
Continue readingHardware Special Edition on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Hardware is set out in the sticks, or what would pass for the sticks amongst a desolate planet. Moses Baxter (Dylan McDermott) finds and brings home the head of a defective maintenance droid, found out …
Continue readingTranssiberian on DVD – The DVDfever Review
The Transsiberian is a train that takes a 6-day trip across the old Soviet Union from Beijing to Moscow. As the film begins, however, we learn that there’s been a murder on a Russian boat …
Continue readingMum and Dad on DVD – The DVDfever Review
Mum and Dad are normally the two people you can rely on life the most, even if they do get on your nerves from time to time while growing up, but the pair in this …
Continue readingThe Air I Breathe on DVD – The DVDfever Review
The Air I Breathe is a film that deals with the interconnectedness of things and, for a film with so many big Hollywood names, is rather a low-budget one with an estimated cost of $10m. …
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