Breaking The Waves follows one of Lars Von Trier‘s habits of starting with a happy scenario before tragedy quickly sneaks its way in. Here, shy, religious Bess McNeill (Emily Watson) marries laddish oil rig worker …
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Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare on PS3 – The DVDfever Review
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare is set in the year 2054, so it’s 40 years since the world wars currently being raged, and things haven’t improved on that front. In fact, they’re getting worse as …
Continue readingThe London Film Festival 2014 Part 3: The Documentary Is Alive And Well…
The London Film Festival 2014‘s first part brought you English-language movies, and in Part 2 we looked at features from the rest of the world. Traditionally we like to hand out our virtual LFF awards …
Continue readingThe Shepherds And The Fox – Intruders Series 1 Episode 5 – The DVDfever Review
The Shepherds And The Fox starts going back to Seattle, 9 years ago, where police search Marcus Fox’s house where they can see he fills his house with knives, there’s Mozart on the turntable, those …
Continue readingX-Men: Days of Future Past 3D on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
X-Men: Days of Future Past seems to have taken a very long time to come to the cinema, rather like Mr Peabody and Sherman, although this time not quite as long. Normally, films only take …
Continue readingInterstellar in 70mm IMAX – The DVDfever cinema review
Interstellar – it’s difficult to know where to begin with this film, especially since I saw it at a 10.15am screening and, on re-entering reality, my brain was left totally nuked for the day. It …
Continue readingTaxi on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Taxi begins with Daniel’s (Samy Naceri) last day at Pizza Joe and he’s done a lap of Marseilles on his delivery scooter to mark his final shift. However, just as he’s getting down to business …
Continue readingAve Verum Corpus – Intruders Series 1 Episode 4 – The DVDfever Review
Ave Verum Corpus is the Mozart piece which Madison (Millie Brown) described to Karen early on in the last episode, shortly before smashing her brains in, in the roadside bathroom, and the piece we see …
Continue readingThe Evil Within on PC – The DVDfever Review
The Evil Within begins with you as cop Sebastian Castellanos, called to a dilapidated hospital with your colleagues, and having to solve a crime, yet before long you’re chained to the ceiling by some freaky …
Continue readingDeath In Heaven – Doctor Who: Series 8 Episode 12 – The DVDfever Review
Death In Heaven starts with Clara outsmarting a Cyberman, by trying some psychology that only a human could be perplexed by, and somehow this confuses the metal muppet, and then we’re all confused when she …
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