Argo begins with a bit of a history lesson, telling us how Mohammad Reza Shah ruled Iran from 1953 until 1979, at which point Khomeini took over after years of opulence and excess from Shah, …
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Cloud Atlas – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Cloud Atlas is a film I hadn’t even heard of until a few days before watching it, but there was something intriguing about it in the way it mixes six different stories, each from a …
Continue readingNintendo Wii U 32Gb Premium Pack – The DVDfever Review
Premium Pack: Basic Pack: Nintendo Wii U: Prior to this console, the Wii was a radically different machine than those which had gone before, in some respects, most notably with the Wii remote and how …
Continue readingNintendo Land on Nintendo Wii U – The DVDfever Review
Nintendo Land comes complete with the Wii U console, taking place within a carnival-style atmosphere which is a bit like being back in the Wii U main menu’s MiiVerse, as other users appear before you …
Continue readingNew Super Mario Bros U on Nintendo Wii U – The DVDfever Review
New Super Mario Bros U: With every new Nintendo machine, there’s always a new Super Mario Bros title to play, and the Wii U is no exception. Do you really need to know the plot? …
Continue readingLincoln – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Lincoln: If you keep seeing Daniel Day-Lewis popping up on news items for winning another award, then you’ll probably have heard of his latest film role – playing America’s most venerated President in Steven Spielberg’s …
Continue readingSilent Hill: Revelation 3D on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Silent Hill: Revelation 3D begins with Heather (the stunning Adelaide Clemens), about to turn 18 and she hopes for a more stable life as she and her father, Harry (Sean Bean sporting an impossibly abysmal …
Continue readingTaken 2 on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Taken 2?? I was never quite taken with Taken, and this sequel didn’t get great reviews at the cinema, but this film is short enough to not take up too much of my time (92 …
Continue readingUniversal Soldier: Day Of Reckoning 3D on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Universal Soldier: Day Of Reckoning had a lot riding on it. The Roland Emmerich original, in 1992, was a fantastic piece of entertaining nonsense. The 1999 sequel, Universal Soldier: The Return, only saw Van Damme …
Continue readingFlight – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Flight is the one about Denzel Washington playing Captain William “Whip” Whitaker, a functioning alcholic and drug addict who, after a heavy night with air hostess, Trina (Nadine Velazquez), he takes to the sky in …
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