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Trumbo, Dalton Trumbo. Prolific and successful screenwriter but a communist. Hollywood liked the former, but not the latter. The film begins in 1947, yet Trumbo joined the Communist Party of the USA in 1943 after …
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Five Dolls For An August Moon on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Five Dolls For An August Moon is a film I’d not heard of before, but amongst Arrow’s vast back-catalogue of slasher horror cult classics, I’m slowly working through them one by one and filling in …
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Moving With Momentum – new vlog online
Moving With Momentum is a new vlog where I look at the action movie Momentum, starring Olga Kurylenko (Quantum Of Solace, Oblivion), James Purefoy (High-Rise, Episodes, The Following), Shelley Nicole and Morgan Freeman (Now You …
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Kiss Of The Spider Woman on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Kiss Of The Spider Woman is one of those films released many moons ago which I’d never got round to watching on its release. Then again, in 1985 I would have been 13 at the …
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Spotlight – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Spotlight is the name of the magazine within The Boston Globe, run by a four-person team who keeps their work confidential and can spend up to a year to investigate a subject thoroughly, sometimes also …
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Love and Mercy on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Love and Mercy has a situation I don’t ever remember coming across before – a biopic with two actors playing the same person across a period of time. Before watching this, I thought it would …
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The Big Short – The DVDfever Cinema Review
The Big Short doesn’t sound like the typical movie that would excite an audience – a drama based on bankers and the impending collapse of the housing market towards the end of the last decade. …
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Momentum on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Momentum took a little bit of time before it enticed me in, but once it had, it provided an engaging, if daft, way of spending 90 minutes or so. It begins with a bank raid …
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Creed – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Creed begins briefly back in 1998 when the hero of the piece was just a a wayward child who thought punching other kids in the face was the only way to get ahead. Really, it …
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The Revenant – The DVDfever Cinema Review
The Revenant refers to a person who has returned, and supposedly from the dead. In this case, it’s Hugh Glass (no, not Hugh Jass), portrayed by Leonardo DiCaprio. As we’re introduced to this frontiersman in …
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