Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides: Recently, famous film critic Mark Kermode twittered that he was going to see this fourth installment of Pirates of the Caribbean and indicated he was going to keep …
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The Hangover Part II – The DVDfever Cinema review
The Hangover Part II: In 2009, The Hangover was one of my films of the year. From minute one, the jokes just kept coming and I laughed like never before or since at the cinema. …
Continue readingThe Mechanic (2011) on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
The Mechanic: Now, are you familiar with the works of Oscar Wilde? Because Jason Statham isn’t. He plays Arthur Bishop, a cold, emotionless hitman who does his best to make the hits look like accidents, …
Continue readingTaxi Driver: 35th Anniversary Re-release – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Taxi Driver: I am preparing to commit sacrilege, but I don’t think it passes the test of time. There you are, I’ve said it. My film reviewers’ credibility (if I had any) has just gone …
Continue readingL.A. Noire on Xbox 360 – The DVDfever Review
L.A. Noire: In this game, you play Cole Phelps, a cop recently promoted to Detective, in 1940s Los Angeles, hoping that someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets. …
Continue readingStar Raiders on Xbox 360 (Xbox Live Arcade) – The DVDfever Review
Star Raiders is a game originally released on the Atari 800 in 1979, but I first played it when it came out on the Atari VCS in September 1982. It had a separate keypad especially …
Continue readingPriest 3D – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Priest 3D: I’m sorry, but this film has inspired me into a rant. And it’s not just to complain that it was a bad film (it was really awful, but more of that later). No, …
Continue readingHanna – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Saoirse Ronan
Hanna: The football season is over for me (my team again hides in mid-table obscurity) so now weekends are going to be spent making sure that I catch up on the everyfilmin2011 quest. Thus, at …
Continue readingPortal 2 on Xbox 360 – The DVDfever Review
Portal 2 is, as the name would suggest, a sequel to Portal, part of The Orange Box, which was released in 2007 and also included the superb sequel, Half Life 2 Episode Two (which also …
Continue readingThor 3D – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Thor 3D: The third visit to Cineworld in a day and the huge screen 10 was deserted for this film. Does that mean people haven’t bought the hype? Whatever, we were quite delighted to have …
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