Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol: The ‘Ghost Protocol’ part of the title makes it sound super-cool and exciting, but in reality, it’s just a coded way of saying that the entire Impossible Mission Force (IMF) have …
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Braquo Season 1 on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Braquo Season 1, aka ‘Heist’, begins with Farid Benaissa (Adrien Saint-Joré), a prisoner denying that he and his friend raped a pregnant woman. He also refuses to give up his friend’s name, so cop Max …
Continue readingJustice on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Justice begins with a man being interviewed on camera, saying just a little and then his car is rammed off the top of a multi-storey car park and taking him to an early death. While …
Continue readingSnowtown on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Snowtown is set in the late 1990s, and begins with 16-year-old Jamie Vlassakis (Lucas Pittaway) living a very disatisfying home life. It’s bad enough that his parents are no longer together, but the man his …
Continue readingJohn Carter (of Mars) – The DVDfever Cinema Review
John Carter: Prior to seeing this film, I knew precious little about it. It wasn’t until seeing Mark Kermode’s review on BBC News that I realised it was originally entitled John Carter of Mars and …
Continue reading50/50 on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
50/50 is a film I wasn’t sure whether or not I would like, given how its premise didn’t seem to fit any kind of comedy bill, but I was very pleasantly surprised. When Adam (Joseph …
Continue readingSafe House – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Safe House is the kind of film where, for anyone who’s seen the trailer, you can simply check your brain at the door. It’s really not a film about rocket science. Matt Weston (Ryan Reynolds) …
Continue readingUnit 13 on Sony Playstation Vita – The DVDfever Review
Unit 13 Following the other games I have reviewed on the Sony Playstation Vita, this is definitely the best so far! Lots of shooting and violence as you take part as one of the elite …
Continue readingMetal Gear Solid HD Collection on Xbox 360 – The DVDfever Review
Metal Gear Solid HD Collection: Back in the day, the Metal Gear Solid series was never really my sort of thing. I later got into – and thoroughly enjoyed – the SOCOM games on the …
Continue readingSony Playstation Vita – The DVDfever.co.uk Review
If there’s one handheld console that has served me better than any other in my life, it is my PSP.. Nintendo’s offerings are fun but never feel like they provide any serious gaming offerings, Microsoft …
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