London Film Festival 2011 Part 1: The Big Fellas: We’re going to mix it up a bit for this year’s look back over the London Film Festival. In fact, we’ve got so much to say …
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Mercury Hg on Xbox 360 – The DVDfever Review
Mercury Hgis a new game for Xbox Live Arcade, with Hg is the chemical symbol for mercury. It’s a game that feels a bit like the old arcade classic Marble Madness but with a twist …
Continue readingX-Men First Class on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
X-Men First Class begins back in Poland, 1944 like the opening of the first X-Men film, where a young Erik is seen attempting to open the gates at Auschwitz through special powers. Cut to Westchester, …
Continue readingMimic Director’s Cut on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Mimic is one of those films I have always meant to get round to watching, not least because it stars the achingly gorgeous Mira Sorvino in the lead role, and it also highlights the time …
Continue readingThe Woman on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
The Woman begins with the appearance of a grubby woman’s midriff onscreen and her stroking her blood-smeared stomach. As the camera zooms out we see she’s been stabbed and is trying to clean the wound. …
Continue readingEmpire of Passion on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Empire of Passion (aka Ai No Borei), is the sequel to 1976’s In The Realm Of The Senses, but while it deals with sex, it’s not exactly as ground-breaking as its prequel. In fact, it …
Continue readingIn The Realm of the Senses on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
In The Realm Of The Senses (aka Ai No Corrida), also probably known as John Wayne Bobbitt’s least-favourite film, for reasons that will become apparent, is a strange sexual tale of lust, adultery and why …
Continue readingA Film With Me In It on DVD – The DVDfever Review
A Film With Me In It doesn’t star me, but instead leads with Dylan Moran, Mark Doherty, Amy Huberman and Keith Allen. Pierce (Dylan Moran) is an alcoholic – who doesn’t exactly get a lot …
Continue readingGears of War 3 on Xbox 360 – The DVDfever Review
Gears of War 3 follows the 2008 sequel to the 2006 original Gears of War and this time we’re 18 months on – in their timeline – from the last time we saw Marcus Fenix …
Continue readingRage on Xbox 360 – The DVDfever Review
Rage is a game that I have greatly been looking forward to, given id Software’s previous pedigree including Wolfenstein 3D, Doom & Quake. Okay, so they did also have Daikatana but that can’t ever happen …
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