Blood Simple has a simple premise, but it’s far from simple how events will turn out. Texan Bar owner Julian Marty (Dan Hedaya) suspects his wife, Abby (Frances McDormand), of playing away with young barman …
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Eat Locals on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Eat Locals is a play on the phrase ‘Eat Local’, same as ‘Shop Local’, i.e. buy from local independent shops rather than the big chain stores that’ll live forever, anyway, but Eat Locals – with …
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Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Amazing Grace!
Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami opens with Miss Grace’s iconic Slave To The Rhythm, with the lead singing whilst using the hula hoop, same as when she appeared at the Queen’s Jubilee Concert in 2012 …
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Churchill on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review – Brian Cox
Churchill… Winston Churchill… like Solo… Han Solo… and Bond… James Bond… Okay, let’s be serious for a moment. Churchill probably sounded like a great idea on paper. Wartime movies are sprinkling their way through the …
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The Party on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
The Party is an invite I’d not accepted until now… yes, that’s a lame joke with which to introduce a review for a comedy from Pink Panther collaborators Blake Edwards and Peter Sellers which was …
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A Man Called Ove on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
A Man Called Ove portrays Rolf Lassgård in the titular role as the grumpiest of grumpy old men, not understanding why he can’t get one bunch of flowers for 35krone, simply because he has a …
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Double Date – The DVDfever Cinema Review – The perfect Halloween horror-comedy!
Double Date centres around two women on dates with a difference – they’re homicidal murderers. Yes, if you’ve ever wondered why you didn’t get a second date with a woman – Did she not fancy …
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Memoirs of a Spectrum Addict on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Memoirs of a Spectrum Addict focuses on the home computer that defined my teenage years – the Sinclair ZX Spectrum. Originally known as the ZX-82, it was named the ‘Spectrum’ so to show how it’s …
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Berlin Syndrome on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Berlin Syndrome‘s title infers similarities with Stockholm Sydrome, when a captive bonds with their captor. New to the city, and hanging out with some impromptu friends on the roof of her hostel, Clare (Teresa Palmer) …
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Blade Runner 2049 – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Good, but not iconic
Blade Runner 2049 comes 35 years after the original Blade Runner, but time has moved on just 30 years. Is it worth seeing on the big screen? It is, but bear in mind that it’s …
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