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Captain America: The First Avenger: It was like going from the sublime to a smack in the eye. I had planned to see Arrietty, the Ghibli animated Japanese movie tonight but was astonished to see …
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Swinging with the Finkels – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Swinging with the Finkels: Let me offer a word of congratulation – Jonathan Newman deserves a bottle of champagne for the title. Why? Because it makes his movie sound an awful lot more fun than …
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Incendies – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Incendies: You have read much about my view of the importance of endings during the past six months. Too many movies have finales which just seem away and leave a sense of dissatisfaction. Some, as …
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X-Men First Class – The DVDfever Cinema Review
X-Men First Class comes from what might be the most successful film studio in recent years but I have to admit that most of Marvel’s giant-sized productions have left me cold. Sure, I really like …
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Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides 3D – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides: Recently, famous film critic Mark Kermode twittered that he was going to see this fourth installment of Pirates of the Caribbean and indicated he was going to keep …
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The Hangover Part II – The DVDfever Cinema review
The Hangover Part II: In 2009, The Hangover was one of my films of the year. From minute one, the jokes just kept coming and I laughed like never before or since at the cinema. …
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Taxi Driver: 35th Anniversary Re-release – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Taxi Driver: I am preparing to commit sacrilege, but I don’t think it passes the test of time. There you are, I’ve said it. My film reviewers’ credibility (if I had any) has just gone …
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Priest 3D – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Priest 3D: I’m sorry, but this film has inspired me into a rant. And it’s not just to complain that it was a bad film (it was really awful, but more of that later). No, …
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Hanna – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Saoirse Ronan
Hanna: The football season is over for me (my team again hides in mid-table obscurity) so now weekends are going to be spent making sure that I catch up on the everyfilmin2011 quest. Thus, at …
Continue readingThor 3D – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Thor 3D: The third visit to Cineworld in a day and the huge screen 10 was deserted for this film. Does that mean people haven’t bought the hype? Whatever, we were quite delighted to have …
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