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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Bad Moms – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Bad Moms stars Mila Kunis as Amy. She’s 32 and feeling old. At the coffee company where she works, everyone is under 25 and spends their days playing ping pong and rollerskating round the office. …
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David Brent: Life On The Road – The DVDfever Cinema Review
David Brent: Life On The Road shows that when it comes to his character from The Office, Ricky Gervais is having the last laugh. And it’s on us. Gervais once used to make fresh, original …
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Sweet Bean on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Sweet Bean centres around Sentarô (Mystery Train‘s Masatoshi Nagase), a man who’s as miserable a chef as I was when I used to work in a Little Chef, half a lifetime ago, looking at every …
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Miles Ahead on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Miles Ahead‘s rather loose storyline is that journalist Dave Braben (Ewan McGregor) claims to have been sent by Rolling Stone magazine to write a story about the fact Miles has been awawy from the music …
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The Jungle Book 3D (2016) on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
The Jungle Book is a film that needs no introduction… so, I’ll introduce the review by telling you it needs… yep, you’re already ahead of me. Mowgli (Neel Sethi) is the boy, I mean, man-cub, …
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Stalker on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Stalker is one of those bizarre films which I found incredibly difficult to get into, and if I’m misremembering anything in my review, then that’s because trying to watch three hours of this rather pummelled …
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Louder Than Bombs on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Louder Than Bombs begins quite simply with Jonah’s (Jesse Eisenberg – Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice) wife, Amy (Megan Ketch), giving birth to their new child, but then he’s called away back to the …
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Tale Of Tales on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Tale Of Tales is a film from Matteo Garrone, who co-wrote the screenplay, based on 17th century Italian poet Giambattista Basile‘s The Pentamerone, which translates as “The Tale of Tales, or Entertainment for Little Ones”), …
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