Chevalier attempts the ultimate in competition. It centres on six men on a fishing trip in the Aegean Sea who, with a lot of time to kill, decide to play a game to find who …
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Arrival – A big-screen-must – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Arrival: In a word… Weeeeeeeeeeeird! But that wouldn’t make much of a review. In a nutshell, it’s another film where aliens arrive on Earth, but one that’s centred more in the mould of drama than …
Continue reading52 Pick-Up on Blu-ray/DVD Dual-format – The DVDfever Review
52 Pick Up has a simple premise but it makes for an effective thriller from director John Frankenheimer, where Mitch (Roy Scheider) finds himself blackmailed for sleeping with young floozy Cini (Kelly Preston), for a …
Continue readingThe Hills Have Eyes Special Edition on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
The Hills Have Eyes is another in the long line of Arrow Special Edition releases where I’ve only seen it for the first time in this format. Forever billed as one of those ’70s shlock …
Continue readingNow You See Me 2 on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Now You See Me 2 is the sequel to…. now, let me think… oh yes, Now You See Me. I had read online a suggestion that this second entry should’ve been titled “Now You Don’t”, …
Continue readingWeiner – The DVDfever Review
Weiner, Anthony Weiner. The Republican who clearly has some charisma – as we see him shout a lot in 2010 when the Republicans blocked healthcare for 9/11 emergency responders, but unfortunately for him, he chose …
Continue readingBFI 60th London Film Festival Part 1 by Helen M Jerome
BFI 60th London Film Festival Part 1: Stroll down the red carpet, as we usher you into the best seats in the house for our exclusive, three-part round-up of the very best movies at the …
Continue readingThe Accountant – add-and-subtract is just so matter-of-fact – The DVDfever Cinema Review
The Accountant stars Ben Affleck in the titular occupation as Christian Wolff, a man who suffers from Asperger’s Syndrome. I don’t know if the depiction of autism in this film was realistic, but throughout the …
Continue readingNotes On Blindness on DVD – The DVDfever Review
Notes On Blindness is the title of a compendium of C-90 audio cassette tapes recorded by Professor John Hull, portrayed here by Dan Skinner, who’s recently turned 40, so could be considered to be a …
Continue readingElvis and Nixon on DVD – The DVDfever Review
Elvis and Nixon is when The King met The Crook, and is set between December 1970, when Elvis Presley wanted to stamp his mark on American politics, and February 16th, 1971, when then-President Richard Nixon …
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