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Society was the first ever legal 18-certificate film I saw at the cinema, on my 18th birthday in fact, April 14th 1990, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. It was a midnight screening, so technically it …
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1864 on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
1864 is another triumph for Nordic Noir, for television as a whole, and for viewers who owe it to themselves to watch this drama. If there’s one thing I like about a TV series, it’s …
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Foxcatcher on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Foxcatcher begins with Mark Schultz (Channing Tatum, who usually restricts himself to goofball comedies), a socially-awkward character, telling a group of schoolchildren about how he takes part in wrestling because it enabled him to win …
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A Most Violent Year on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
A Most Violent Year stars Inside Llewyn Davis‘ Oscar Isaac as Abel Morales, who is a good man, in principle, running a business to supply oil. He’s buying a new facility which will allow him …
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The Long Good Friday Special Edition on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
The Long Good Friday is a film which I didn’t really ‘get’ when I was younger. i would’ve been in my teens when I first saw it. The late, great Bob Hoskins plays Harold Shand, …
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Satyricon (aka Fellini Satyricon) on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Satyricon, by Federico Fellini, is one of the most bizarre cinematic experiences ever committed to celluloid, in my view. I first saw it at Keele Film Society back in the early 1990s. The brochure described …
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The Duke of Burgundy on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
The Duke of Burgundy centres around a ‘master and servant’ BDSM relationship, with Cynthia (Borgen‘s Sidse Babett Knudsen) lording it over Evelyn (Chiara D’Anna), for example, making the latter clean the house whilst crawling around …
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Birdman on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Birdman, or to give it its full title, “Birdman: or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)“, stars Michael Keaton as has-been actor Riggan Thompson, whose glory days are behind him, hence the rather self-referential aspect to …
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Midnight Run on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Midnight Run is a fantastic buddy-buddy action comedy and one of many films at the time which bore the extreme brunt of TV censorship in the ’90s when they couldn’t handle the f-word – even …
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Orgazmo: Extended Special Edition on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Orgazmo, from the creators of the infamous South Park, was one of the first First Independent titles to be released via Columbia TriStar on DVD, in 2000, but had a paucity of extras compared to …
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