Dog Eat Dog centres on three ex-cons, who’ve spent a great deal of their life in prison, resulting in them each having two strikes, meaning a third arrest will send them down for life with …
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Arrival – A big-screen-must – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Arrival: In a word… Weeeeeeeeeeeird! But that wouldn’t make much of a review. In a nutshell, it’s another film where aliens arrive on Earth, but one that’s centred more in the mould of drama than …
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The Accountant – add-and-subtract is just so matter-of-fact – The DVDfever Cinema Review
The Accountant stars Ben Affleck in the titular occupation as Christian Wolff, a man who suffers from Asperger’s Syndrome. I don’t know if the depiction of autism in this film was realistic, but throughout the …
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Doctor Strange – easily kicks Captain America’s arse – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Doctor Strange is a brilliant, but arrogant, neurosurgeon. He also must earn a fortune since he has a drawer full of rotating watches – yes, individually rotating, for no apparent reason, and presumably still continue …
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Jack Reacher: Never Go Back IMAX – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Never Go Back is the second Jack Reacher novel, written by Lee Child, to be adapted for the big screen, and after being less than impressed when I got Jack Reacher round the first time, …
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I, Daniel Blake – Ken Loach’s essential parable for our times – The DVDfever Cinema Review
I, Daniel Blake begins with the 59-year-old carpenter titular character, portrayed by comedian Dave Johns, applying for ESA (Employment and Support Allowance), and being asked a succession of – irrelevant, to him – questions when …
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Deepwater Horizon – a gripping big-screen experience – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Deepwater Horizon is the name of the rig which BP used to go exploring under the sea bed for oil. On April 20, 2010, it caught fire. Why? You’ll get the full details while you …
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The Magnificent Seven 2016 – morelike The Mephitic Seven – The DVDfever Cinema Review
The Magnificent Seven, like Ben-Hur, is another of the current crop of remakes where I’ve never seen any previous version, whether the 1960 movie with Yul Brynner, the late ’90s TV series, or 1954’s original …
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Bridget Jones’ Baby – Even men will like it! – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Bridget Jones’ Baby – let’s get this right from the start. For me, that’s the title, NOT “Bridget Jones’s Baby”. Who puts the extra, redundant ‘s’ in these things? Probably the same people who say …
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Kubo And The Two Strings – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Kubo And The Two Strings broke the mould in actually making me want to go and see an animated movie on the big screen, and one that you’d think would normally be aimed at an …
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