The Grand Budapest Hotel makes its way on to Blu-ray and DVD, with a bold instruction at the start of the film: “PLEASE SET YOUR MONITOR TO 16X9”. You’ll see why in due course. The …
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Need For Speed 3D on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Need for Speed aims to do for movie franchises what the bafflingly popular Fast and Furious series has also done, but in this case it’s also based on the popular videogame franchise, and how many …
Continue readingThe Lego Movie 3D on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
The Lego Movie begins with unlikely hero Emmet Brickowoski (Chris Pratt) being inadvertently caught up in a plot where Lord Business (Will Ferrell), an evil guy masquerading as the President, has stolen Kragle, an item …
Continue readingUnder The Skin on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Under The Skin is, let’s get this out the way, the film where Scarlett Johansson gets her kit off. Without anyone in the cast having a name for their character, she plays an alien who …
Continue readingBraquo Season 3 on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Braquo Season 3 is something that I didn’t know had yet been made when the press release dropped into my inbox, but upon seeing it I was all “Mon dieu! It’s time for more Eddy …
Continue reading24 Live Another Day Season 9 Episode 12 – The DVDfever Review
24 reaches the endgame with Episode 12 and “The following takes place between 10.00pm and… 11.00am” Huh?! Success! Audrey’s friend Jiao isn’t dead! …until Cheng gets wind of that and finishes her off anyway. Somehow, …
Continue readingThunderbolt and Lightfoot on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot sounds morelike the sort of drink you’d buy in a bar in town on a Friday night, these days, but 40 years ago, it was a film about two robbers, played respectively …
Continue readingWolfenstein: The New Order on PC – The DVDfever Review
Wolfenstein: The New Order positions you in the action as B.J. Blazkowicz, an American war hero who wakes in 1960, after a 14-year coma, realising that the Nazis have taken over the world, since World …
Continue readingDeep Breath (Rough cut) – Doctor Who: Series 8 Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review
Deep Breath is the first full new episode of Doctor Who to star the superb Peter Capaldi, after his all-too-brief appearance at the end of the Christmas episode, after he regenerated from Matt Smith’s incarnation, …
Continue reading24 Live Another Day Season 9 Episode 11 – The DVDfever Review
24 is in ‘penultimate episode’ phase with Episode 11 and Cheng isn’t best-pleased both with his country for turning their back on him – hence the sinking of the Chinese aircraft carrier – and also …
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