Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami opens with Miss Grace’s iconic Slave To The Rhythm, with the lead singing whilst using the hula hoop, same as when she appeared at the Queen’s Jubilee Concert in 2012 …
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Churchill on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review – Brian Cox
Churchill… Winston Churchill… like Solo… Han Solo… and Bond… James Bond… Okay, let’s be serious for a moment. Churchill probably sounded like a great idea on paper. Wartime movies are sprinkling their way through the …
Continue readingThe Party on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
The Party is an invite I’d not accepted until now… yes, that’s a lame joke with which to introduce a review for a comedy from Pink Panther collaborators Blake Edwards and Peter Sellers which was …
Continue readingA Man Called Ove on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
A Man Called Ove portrays Rolf Lassgård in the titular role as the grumpiest of grumpy old men, not understanding why he can’t get one bunch of flowers for 35krone, simply because he has a …
Continue readingDouble Date – The DVDfever Cinema Review – The perfect Halloween horror-comedy!
Double Date centres around two women on dates with a difference – they’re homicidal murderers. Yes, if you’ve ever wondered why you didn’t get a second date with a woman – Did she not fancy …
Continue readingMemoirs of a Spectrum Addict on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Memoirs of a Spectrum Addict focuses on the home computer that defined my teenage years – the Sinclair ZX Spectrum. Originally known as the ZX-82, it was named the ‘Spectrum’ so to show how it’s …
Continue readingBerlin Syndrome on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Berlin Syndrome‘s title infers similarities with Stockholm Sydrome, when a captive bonds with their captor. New to the city, and hanging out with some impromptu friends on the roof of her hostel, Clare (Teresa Palmer) …
Continue readingBlade Runner 2049 – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Good, but not iconic
Blade Runner 2049 comes 35 years after the original Blade Runner, but time has moved on just 30 years. Is it worth seeing on the big screen? It is, but bear in mind that it’s …
Continue readingI Am Not Madame Bovary on DVD – The DVDfever Review
I Am Not Madame Bovary is so-called as the lead character, Li Xuelian (Bingbing Fan), is considered a woman of ill repute (as she had an affair), and all following her failed marriage to Qin …
Continue readingBrimstone – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Brimstone is a bit of an odd film, but one I enjoyed a lot more than I expected to after seeing the rather middling trailer. It’s essentially a story of revenge and retribution, told over …
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