The Grand Budapest Hotel centers around an elderly Mr. Moustafa (F. Murray Abraham), in 1985,recounting tales about his life at the hotel to a young writer (Jude Law), starting from the moment he started as …
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The 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 readingSkyfall – The DVDfever cinema review
Casino Royale was a corker, while Quantum of Solace was lacking any real direction, so all hopes were high for the 50th Anniversary movie, Skyfall. And my hopes were proved right up until the opening …
Continue readingLondon Film Festival 2011 Part 3: The DVDfever Awards (Oct 12th-27th)
AND THE AWARD GOES TO… This was such a richly rewarding London Film Festival that DVDfever split its retrospective coverage in three. In the first two, longer instalments we looked in depth at the movies …
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 readingStrange Days on DVD – The DVDfever Review
Strange Days poses these questions: Have you ever jacked in? Have you ever wire-tripped? Those are asked by Lenny Nero (Ralph Fiennes) when he wants you to try out his Superconducting Quantum Interference Device, or …
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