The Long Good Friday is a film which I didn’t really ‘get’ when I was younger. i would’ve been in my teens when I first saw it. The late, great Bob Hoskins plays Harold Shand, …
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Spooks: The Greater Good – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Spooks: The Greater Good begins with a number of the MI5 team stuck in a typical London traffic jam, transporting evil terrorist Qasim (Elyes Gabel). Quite why they didn’t wait until rush hour was over …
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Satyricon (aka Fellini Satyricon) on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Satyricon, by Federico Fellini, is one of the most bizarre cinematic experiences ever committed to celluloid, in my view. I first saw it at Keele Film Society back in the early 1990s. The brochure described …
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The Duke of Burgundy on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
The Duke of Burgundy centres around a ‘master and servant’ BDSM relationship, with Cynthia (Borgen‘s Sidse Babett Knudsen) lording it over Evelyn (Chiara D’Anna), for example, making the latter clean the house whilst crawling around …
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Birdman on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Birdman, or to give it its full title, “Birdman: or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)“, stars Michael Keaton as has-been actor Riggan Thompson, whose glory days are behind him, hence the rather self-referential aspect to …
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Midnight Run on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Midnight Run is a fantastic buddy-buddy action comedy and one of many films at the time which bore the extreme brunt of TV censorship in the ’90s when they couldn’t handle the f-word – even …
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Avengers: Age Of Ultron – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Avengers: Age Of Ultron begins with know-it-all philanthropist Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr) putting into place a peacekeeping program. Why? Because he has far too much time on his hands, and with his ‘Iron Legion’, …
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Still Life on DVD – The DVDfever Review
Still Life stars Eddie Marsan as John May, a council worker who looks for relatives of the deceased and arranges paupers funerals in the absence of anyone else, as well as the scattering of ashes …
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Orgazmo: Extended Special Edition on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Orgazmo, from the creators of the infamous South Park, was one of the first First Independent titles to be released via Columbia TriStar on DVD, in 2000, but had a paucity of extras compared to …
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House On Haunted Hill on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
House On Haunted Hill starts with a TV documentary clip about the Vannacutt lunatic asylum, and how it was run by a murderous ‘doctor’ who was to the patients of the 20th Century, what Harold …
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