Gravity is only the second-ever film I’ve gone to see twice at the cinema on its initial run. The other one was… erm… Die Hard 2, but hey, back in 1990 you weren’t ever going …
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The Monuments Men – The DVDfever cinema review
The Monuments Men is a film that can be summed up in one sentence, and really should be meant to play out equally succinctly but, unfortunately, is allowed by its director and lead actor, George …
Continue readingGravity 3D – The DVDfever Cinema Review
There’s a lack of the titular component in Gravity because it’s set in space. That I knew. But what I didn’t know until I saw it was that it’s less a film and more an …
Continue readingThe London Film Festival 2013 Part 1: Big Fellas (October 9th-20th)
WHOOSH! That’s the sound of The 57th London Film Festival whizzing past, these days spreading its tentacles into the provinces as well as the suburbs. WHAM! is the sound made by the special effects (and …
Continue readingArgo – The DVDfever Review
Argo begins with a bit of a history lesson, telling us how Mohammad Reza Shah ruled Iran from 1953 until 1979, at which point Khomeini took over after years of opulence and excess from Shah, …
Continue readingThree Kings on DVD – The DVDfever Review
Three Kings actually features four leading men, but given the biblical reference between that and the gold involved in the film, it’s one little oversight I’m going to have to overlook. Life in the United …
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