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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We Need To Talk About Kevin on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
We Need To Talk About Kevin is a film I’d heard a lot of great things about prior to watching it, not least from Mark Kermode who declared it his favourite film of 2011. While …
Continue readingChronicle – The DVDfever cinema review
Chronicle begins with no opening credits, and simply with Andrew Detmer (Dane DeHaan, below-right) setting up his video camera which he’ll take with him everywhere. It’s not 100% clear *why* he’s doing this, other than …
Continue readingUnderworld Awakening 3D – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Underworld: Awakening is the second sequel in the Underworld series, with Underworld: Rise of the Lycans being the prequel to the first film Underworld and Underworld: Evolution being the first sequel… Got it? Good. I …
Continue readingOn Becoming a Ghost E.P. by Old Suits, a new alternative Manchester band
Old Suits are a new alternative pop band from Manchester and are formed from previous bands including Random Project and Kid Galahad, the latter of which had a fantastic track called Punk, which I used …
Continue readingTyrannosaur on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Tyrannosaur: When the menu appears for this film, it features a long shot of a house with, buried just below, the bones of a Tyrannosaurus Rex. This is no venture for the Time Team, but …
Continue readingTinker Tailor Soldier Spy on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – I’ll start this review by the admission that I have never seen the original series, so cannot compare Gary Oldman to Alec Guinness, even though it feels like the former …
Continue readingRolling Thunder on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Rolling Thunder stars William Devane as Major Charles Rane, who comes home from Vietnam after spending seven years in a prisoner of war camp and greets his young son who barely remembers him from before …
Continue readingMelancholia on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Melancholia starts with a number of very slo-mo shots, nothing making particular sense – at this point, even if I was to try and describe them, such as a horse falling down backwards, a woman …
Continue readingThe Guard on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
The Guard: It’s not long into this film before we realise just how unorthodox the behaviours are of Sergeant Gerry Boyle (Brendan Gleeson) when he disturbs a crime scene by taking some pieces of paper …
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