Bound was the first film ever made by The Wachowski Brothers, with The Matrix being their follow-up in 1999. Most recently, Jupiter Ascending should’ve been out by now but for no apparent reason, and after …
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Revival 2014: Remember… Relive… Revive…
Revival 2014 was the second year for this retro video gaming event, held on August 9th & 10th at Wolverhampton Racecourse, and after the immense amount of fun I had at last year’s inaugural event, …
Continue readingPioneer on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Pioneer is a thriller set partly underwater in which, after huge oil and gas reserves are discovered in the North Sea in the 1970s, the race is on to lay a pipeline deep in the …
Continue readingGuardians of the Galaxy IMAX 3D – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Guardians of the Galaxy is a film where I had no knowledge of its connection with the Marvel Universe, since I only follow what gets released in cinemas, rather than scrutinising the minutiae of the …
Continue readingThe Expendables 3 – The DVDfever cinema review
The Expendables 3 is, obviously, the third in the, hopefully, just a trilogy of films about aging action stars getting cameos in a last throw of the dice, for some of them. The first one, …
Continue readingLocke on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Locke is the surname of Ivan Locke, and this is the film where Tom Hardy, as the titular character, is the only one seen onscreen. He’s a construction site foreman and it’s the eve of …
Continue readingTop Dog on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Top Dog sets out the life of Billy Evans (Leo Gregory) early, showing hwo he sorts out a chav’s vociferous dispute in a Chinese takeway by delivering some non-fatal justice that ensures he will never …
Continue readingSniper Elite III on PS3 – The DVDfever Review
Sniper Elite III is here and while there is a story, you know that the reason you’re here is for the moments where you get to fire off a slow-motion sniper shot, resulting in an …
Continue readingNoah on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Noah begins with a crash court of biblical mythology about Adam & Eve’s sons, where Cain killed Abel, and something about the Watchers, and temptation leading to sin, and the big man upstairs deciding to …
Continue readingTransformers: Age of Extinction IMAX 3D – The DVDfever cinema review
Transformers: Age of Extinction is so-called because it involves the dinosaurs and, as the film begins, we see them being wiped out, circa 65 million BC, but this time it’s because an asteroid has hit …
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