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Melancholia starts with a number of very slo-mo shots, nothing making particular sense – at this point, even if I was to try and describe them, such as a horse falling down backwards, a woman …
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The Guard on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
The Guard: It’s not long into this film before we realise just how unorthodox the behaviours are of Sergeant Gerry Boyle (Brendan Gleeson) when he disturbs a crime scene by taking some pieces of paper …
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Kill List on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Kill List gets off to a powerful start with a domestic row between ex-soldier Jay (Neil Maskell, below) and Shel (MyAnna Buring, bottom picture) about… well, what do married couples usually argue about? Money. The …
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Horrible Bosses: Totally Inappropriate Edition on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Horrible Bosses begins with stockbroker Nick Hendricks (Jason Bateman) telling us in a voiceover that in a lot of businesses no-one ever likes to take shit from anyone, and that such a design for life …
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Bad Teacher on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Bad Teacher is obviously about Cameron Diaz playing a teacher, in this case by the name of Elizabeth Halsey, but at the start of the film, she’s actually leaving John Adams Middle School, known as …
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X-Men First Class on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
X-Men First Class begins back in Poland, 1944 like the opening of the first X-Men film, where a young Erik is seen attempting to open the gates at Auschwitz through special powers. Cut to Westchester, …
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Mimic Director’s Cut on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Mimic is one of those films I have always meant to get round to watching, not least because it stars the achingly gorgeous Mira Sorvino in the lead role, and it also highlights the time …
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The Woman on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
The Woman begins with the appearance of a grubby woman’s midriff onscreen and her stroking her blood-smeared stomach. As the camera zooms out we see she’s been stabbed and is trying to clean the wound. …
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Empire of Passion on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Empire of Passion (aka Ai No Borei), is the sequel to 1976’s In The Realm Of The Senses, but while it deals with sex, it’s not exactly as ground-breaking as its prequel. In fact, it …
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In The Realm of the Senses on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
In The Realm Of The Senses (aka Ai No Corrida), also probably known as John Wayne Bobbitt’s least-favourite film, for reasons that will become apparent, is a strange sexual tale of lust, adultery and why …
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