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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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The Commitments 25th Anniversary Edition on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
The Commitments is one of those all-time classics. I loved it in the cinema, I loved it on DVD and I’m loving it again on Blu-ray. It’s the tale of an unlikely band being brought …
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Bad Neighbours 2: Sorority Rising on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Bad Neighbours 2: Sorority Rising is, for anyone who’s been under a rock since 2014, the sequel to that year’s comedy Bad Neighbours, which was called, simply, “Neighbors“, in the US, but they clearly figured …
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Dead-End Drive-In Special Edition on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Dead-End Drive-In was released in 1986, so from 1988, it’s the near future when the world starts going to hell in a hand-cart, as riots and a further economy crash has meant the end of …
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Green Room on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Green Room with new young alt-rock band The Ain’t Rights, led by Pat (Anton Yelchin) trying to find themselves… But here, they find themselves in the middle of a cornfield, waking up after having crashed …
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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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Nostalgia on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Nostalgia is another bizarre film from Andrei Tarkovsky where I had to find out what was happening from the description on IMDB, as I hadn’t the foggiest while I was watching this movie. Andrei Gorchakov …
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Matinee Special Edition on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Matinee centres around Hitchcock-like Lawrence Woolsey (John Goodman on fine form, as usual), a horror movie director-cum-showman trying to get people away from watching TV and back into the cinema. It’s 1962, and his plan …
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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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Ben-Hur 2016 – Rodrigo Santoro, as Jesus, nails it – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Ben-Hur 2016 begins with some mad, macho-style posturing, as it fast-forwards to the eventual chariot race when brothers Judah Ben-Hur (Jack Huston) and Messala (Toby Kebbell), his brother from another mother, are at odds with …
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