Network is one of those classic films I haven’t seen until now, this one being centered around Howard Beale (Peter Finch), a fantastically successful newscaster whose luck started to change in 1969 when his ratings …
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Paddington on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Paddington is the one about the bear from darkest Peru who came to live with the Brown family in London, whilst having a fetish for marmalade sandwiches. From his origins in book form in 1958, …
Continue readingFortitude Episode 9 – The DVDfever Review
Fortitude Episode 9 begins by showing us Ronnie’s brutal murder but not showing who did the deed. Was it Frank? Then we cut to Liam, having spent most of the series in that bloody hyperbaric …
Continue readingThe Hunger Games Mockingjay Part 1 on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
The Hunger Games Mockingjay Part 1 continues the story of Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) and her uprising against the fascist state, and President Snow (Donald Sutherland) is off on his high horse trying to stamp …
Continue readingHorns – uncut 18-certificate version on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Horns stars Harry Potter‘s Daniel Radcliffe as Ig Perrish, a young man in his mid-20s with a big problem – someone has murdered his childhood sweetheart, Merrin Williams (Juno Temple, who is about as close …
Continue readingOrdinary Lies Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review
Ordinary Lies last night broadcast its first episode in this new drama series, from writer Danny Brocklehurst (Clocking Off, Shameless, The Driver), following in the footsteps of Clocking Off where each episode revolves around a …
Continue readingFortitude Episode 8 – The DVDfever Review
Fortitude Episode 8 begins in the aftermath of Shirley vomiting into her Mum’s stomach, and she’s now outside… in the FREEZING cold, barefoot and bloodstained. Whatever she’s been doing in the interim, it’s happened offscreen, …
Continue readingLeviathan on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Leviathan is set in the Russian coastal town of Pribrezhny where put-upon manual labourer, Kolya (Aleksey Serebryakov, giving a fantastic performance), has more than enough on his plate to make a man finally snap. The …
Continue readingThe Imitation Game on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
The Imitation Game begins in 1951 with Detective Nock (The Casual Vacancy‘s Rory Kinnear) and Sgt Staehl (Ideal‘s Tom Goodman-Hill) turn up to the reported break-in at Alan Turing’s house, where he’s reluctant to talk …
Continue readingNightcrawler on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Nightcrawler stars Jake Gyllenhaal as unemployed loner and plant-watering obsessive Lou Bloom, stalking the streets at night, looking for a story to tell, but as he goes about his activities, but I learned early on …
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