BFI 60th London Film Festival Part 3: Now’s the time to focus on the extraordinarily rich crop of documentaries from the 2016 London Film Festival – including lots of biopics, some very personal passion projects, …
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Transformers: The Movie (1986) 30th Anniversary Edition on Blu-ray Steelbook – The DVDfever Review
Transformers: The Movie – from toys and cartoons to their first full-length outing, thirty years ago, they set this movie in that futuristic year of 2005! There’s a battle which leaves both Optimus Prime and …
Continue readingRichard Herring: Happy Now? on DVD – The DVDfever Review
Happy Now? is Richard Herring‘s twelfth stand-up show, and the third I’ve seen on DVD following last year’s Lord Of The Dance Settee and 2014’s We’re All Going To Die!, and this one sees Rich …
Continue readingSnowden – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Snowden… Edward Snowden… the guy who spilled all of the CIA’s secrets about snooping on civilians. George W. Bush did nothing to stop it, and then when Barack Obama took over the Presidency, he vowed …
Continue readingThe Shallows on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
The Shallows was pitched as a shark vs. Blake Lively, an actress so deathly dull in never-grow-old drama The Age of Adeline that I willed for the big fish to take her. Will the shark …
Continue readingSully: Miracle On The Hudson – The non-disaster movie is a disaster – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Sully is the one where the studio had to add “Miracle on the Hudson” to the UK title because most people outside of the US wouldn’t remember the nickname of pilot Chesley ‘Sully’ Sullenberger (played …
Continue readingNerve on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Nerve centres around Venus Delmonico, aka Vee (Emma Roberts), whose world centres around social media and how important she feels when she gets likes and retweets and all the rest that entails. She’s encouraged to …
Continue readingImperium on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Imperium felt similar beforehand to the plot of Reece Dinsdale’s ID, which recently saw a sequel starring Doctors‘ Simon Rivers, ID2: Shadwell Army, but is based on the experience of undercover FBI agent Michael German …
Continue readingTo Live And Die In L.A. on DVD – The DVDfever Review
To Live And Die In L.A. is one of of William Friedkin‘s greatest films, with an incredible soundtrack from the effervescent Wang Chung, now getting a Blu-ray release for the first time in the UK, …
Continue readingBFI 60th London Film Festival Part 2 by Helen M Jerome
BFI 60th London Film Festival Part 2: It’s high time we looked further afield, into Europe and beyond, to see what they’re up to in their movies. Some of them may not have the massive …
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