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Money Monster begins with the financial breaking news that Ibis Clear Capital’s shares plumetted due to “a glitch in their algorithm”, since all our money is just zeroes and ones in the electronic ether, rather …
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The Sacrifice on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
The Sacrifice shows that at 149 minutes, Andrei Tarkovsky never knew the word ‘brevity’ after his first movie, Ivan’s Childhood, as those since seem to have gone on forever when they really didn’t have to. …
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Slugs Special Edition on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Slugs… Mutant killer slugs! Yes, they’re not just irritating little blighters that crawl onto your path, slither their muck all over the place, eat your plants and then complain to their MP when you pour …
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Love And Friendship on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Love And Friendship is based on Jane Austen‘s novella “Lady Susan“, and was a film I was really looking forward to after watching the trailer. It opened with introductions to members of the cast, as …
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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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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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