The Disappearance of Alice Creed begins with the two male leads, Vic (Eddie Marsan) and Danny (Martin Compston, below with Marsan) stealing a van from a car park, then taking a trip to buy a …
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The Last Airbender on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
In The Last Airbender, the world has been split into four separate nations, one for each of the four elements – air, water, earth and fire. The film begins with two members of the Southern …
Continue readingBarney’s Version – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Barney’s Version: Fresh from his personal triumph at the Golden Globes – winning Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy for this performance – Paul Giamatti struts his comic stuff across this long and winding …
Continue readingCertified Copy on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Certified Copy begins with writer James Miller (William Shimell) giving a talk about his new book, entitled Certified Copy. He writes about art, in terms of original works and those which are reproductions. Juliette Binoche …
Continue readingGamer on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Gamer begins with no titles as such, just words like ‘Kable Killer’ and ‘Slayers’ posted up as electronic billboards on buildings all around the city. This is because a man known as Kable (Gerard Butler) …
Continue readingTRON Legacy 3D – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Tron, back in 1982 at the age of 10, was a film for me which changed my life. Not only was I at an impressionable age, although I can still be impressed at 38, but …
Continue readingRambo (2008) on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Rambo is back, and this time he’s in Thailand to sort out the 60-year civil war between the Burmese police and the Karen people, who are routinely killed, sometimes for sport. It doesn’t start out …
Continue readingThe Expendables on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
The Expendables are an elite group of mercenaries, running around to save hostages like a beefed-up A-Team, with wisecracks to match, led by Barney Ross (Sylvester Stallone), Lee Christmas (Jason Statham) and Yin Yang (Jet …
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Salt on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Salt begins with our heroine, Evelyn Salt (Angelina Jolie), being beaten up in a North Korean jail “two years ago” for alleged spying. Eventually the US government rescue her. Well, if they didn’t then the …
Continue readingInception on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Inception is the sort of film you’ll love if you enjoy a film that really screws with you mind. As the film begins, Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Arthur (Joseph Gordon-Levitt, right with DiCaprio) visit a …
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