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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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Insurgent: The Divergent Series – The DVDfever Review
Insurgent begins with the kids from Fame – all running and smiling after escaping the evil Jeanine (Kate Winslet) – going to Amity to hide out for a while, but all is not plain sailing, …
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Fifty Shades Of Grey: The Unseen Edition – The DVDfever Review
Fifty Shades Of Grey is the film I never saw at the cinema, based on the book I never read. But then I don’t read books, anyway. And I didn’t go to see it at …
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Love 3D on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Love 3D begins with the onscreen announcements: “The theater management warns you” and then the screen changes to “Put your glasses on. ‘Love’ will start in a few seconds”. But then surely if you’re watching …
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45 Years on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
45 Years is nearly the amount of time since Kate (Charlotte Rampling) and Geoff Mercer (Tom Courtenay) have been married and they’re now preparing for their anniversary celebrations, which are just a few days away …
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Snoopy and Charlie Brown: The Peanuts Movie – The DVDfever Review
Snoopy and Charlie Brown: The Peanuts Movie was originally billed with a title comprised of just the last three words, but was changed to the longer one as if the studio had zero confidence that …
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