Star Trek Into Darkness opens with a great action scene as Kirk (Chris Pine) and Bones (Karl Urban) are on the run from an indiginous tribe in a land that hasn’t even discovered electricity, while …
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A Late Quartet – The DVDfever Cinema Review
A Late Quartet begins with the band appearing on stage and getting ready to perform. But Peter (Christopher Walken, below) feels his time with the band is coming to an end, after 25 years. This …
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Compliance – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Compliance is one of the most compelling and intense films I’ve seen in a long time and takes place at a fast food joint which, to me, feels like the equivalent of a shitty Little …
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G.I. Joe Retaliation IMAX 3D – The DVDfever Cinema Review
G.I. Joe Retaliation – Hmm… at first this film seemed like it was bordering on the verge of Capricorn One territory when, early on, almost all of the ‘Joes’ are wiped out in an attack …
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Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters 3D – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Hansel & Gretel – everyone knows the fairy tale about these siblings, where they came across a house made of candy in the forest, ate some of it, then went inside and encounted a witch …
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Stolen – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Stolen opens with a great sequence with Will Montomery (Nicolas Cage) committing a $10m heist with Vincent (Josh Lucas), seemingly unknowingly while being watched by the FBI, while partners-in-crime Riley (Malin Akerman) and Hoyt (M.C. …
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The Paperboy – The DVDfever Cinema review
The Paperboy – Before I saw this, I wanted to like it more than I did. This was because it’s got two great lead actors who can pull off a blinding performance when they’ve got …
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Oz: The Great and Powerful – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Oz: The Great and Powerful: (Spoilers ahead) I really didn’t fancy this at all. I mean, with a very few honourable exceptions (X-Men First Class, Indiana Jones and The Temple Of Doom) prequels are uniformly …
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Cloud Atlas – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Cloud Atlas is a film I hadn’t even heard of until a few days before watching it, but there was something intriguing about it in the way it mixes six different stories, each from a …
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Lincoln – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Lincoln: If you keep seeing Daniel Day-Lewis popping up on news items for winning another award, then you’ll probably have heard of his latest film role – playing America’s most venerated President in Steven Spielberg’s …
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