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The Evil Dead is a film I first saw aged 11, in 1983, on pirate video. It didn’t scare any of us, but it was fucking brilliant! The plot is simple. Five friends take a …
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Memento Special Edition on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Memento centres on Leonard Shelby, a man who has no short-term memories since an incident and has to leave himself notes for everything, hence the title. Leonard (Guy Pearce, below) has tattoos all over his …
Continue reading30 Days of Night: Dark Days on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
30 Days of Night: Dark Days picks up from where the original 30 Days of Night ended, which is a bit difficult in a way as the lead actress changed, due to Melissa George not …
Continue readingFour Lions on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Four Lions, the feature-length directorial debut for Chris Morris (here listed as Christopher Morris), takes a sideways look at suicide bombers supposedly focussing on being part of the mujahideen, i.e. terrorists, and wanting to blow …
Continue readingLegion on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Legion: Christmas time, but there’s no mistletoe and wine in this film, where Michael (Paul Bettany, right), an angel who’s had enough of his lot, comes to Earth to warn mankind of the oncoming doom, …
Continue readingClash of the Titans (2010) on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Clash of the Titans 2010 starts with Mythology 101: We learn that the Titans were powerful but their reigns were ended by their sons, Zeus, Poseidon and Hades. Zeus got Hades to create a strong …
Continue readingDistrict 9 on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
District 9 begins with the news that the aliens first arrived in 1982, in what is basically an opening documentary-style piece. A large alien ship appears over Johannesbourg, rather than a major city, hovered there …
Continue reading2012 on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
2012 – You know what this one’s about. It’s the one where the world ends. But how? Well, in 2009, deputy geologist Dr Adrian Helmsley (Chiwetel Ejiofor) finds out from his friend in India, Dr. …
Continue reading(500) Days of Summer on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
(500) Days of Summer is an anti-love story. Well, it certainly isn’t conventional, but we begin with Tom Hansen (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), who works at a greetings card company trying to come up with new holidays …
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The Hurt Locker on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review – Jeremy Renner
The Hurt Locker begins with a robot examining a suspect package after the town has been evicted. Uncovering the item, we see that confirms it contains a bomb. However, upon taking back some explosives to …
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