Cake begins with a therapy group coming to terms with the suicide of young mother Nina (Anna Kendrick), and instantly shows that the film will be liberally sprinkled with black humour. Claire Bennett (Jennifer Aniston) …
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Wild Tales on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Wild Tales contains six stories about people whose lives really haven’t gone the way they planned, leading to a lot of it going downhill. There’s a lot that rings true in this film, as you …
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Jonathan Strange And Mr Norrell: The Complete Series – The DVDfever Review
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell is a TV adaptation based on a novel by Susanna Clarke. Since I don’t read books, I’d never heard of it before, but when the trailer appeared on TV, I …
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Inherent Vice on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Inherent Vice is a very bizarre film which is difficult to describe, but I’ll dig it a go. Joaquin Phoenix plays private eye Larry “Doc” Sportello, who specialises in looking for people. First he’s looking …
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Selma on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Selma is the starting point of an important march which took place in 1965, as part of Martin Luther King’s campaign in looking to secure equal voting rights for black people, following his “I Have …
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Whiplash on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Whiplash stars the relatively unknown (to me, at least) Miles Teller as Andrew, a student who loves drumming. Schaffer University music bod Terrence Fletcher (JK Simmons) also loves his drumming, as he spots the lad’s …
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Thief on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Thief shows that if you think you can trust a master criminal, you’re probably wrong. Frank (James Caan) gets involved in a deal that goes down badly, and the wrong guy has his money. In …
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Jurassic World IMAX 3D – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Jurassic World is the fourth one about the dinosaurs who go crazy ape bonkers, killing loads of humans. You’d think they’d learn, right? The first one, Jurassic Park, managed to close the place BEFORE it …
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Taken 3 on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Taken 3 is a film I didn’t expect to be reviewing when I saw the comparatively low-budget original Taken movie, where Bryan Mills’ daughter, Kim, was kidnapped… sorry, taken. It was okay but nothing more. …
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Society: Limited Edition on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Society was the first ever legal 18-certificate film I saw at the cinema, on my 18th birthday in fact, April 14th 1990, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. It was a midnight screening, so technically it …
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