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The Double is writer/director Richard Ayoade‘s second full feature following his debut, Submarine, and whereas that one didn’t work for me fully, there were a great number of elements in there, particularly the visuals, that …
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Pride – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Pride is a new British film based on real events, set during the miner’s strike. Joe (George MacKay), nicknamed Bromley for a large portion of the film, since that’s from where he hails, is a …
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Branded To Kill: Special Edition on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Branded To Kill is a very bizarre film about a hitman, Goro Hanada (Jô Shishido), with a penchant for sniffing boiled rice. He’s got a wife, Mami (Mariko Ogawa), who’s horrible to him, so much …
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Bound Special Edition on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Bound was the first film ever made by The Wachowski Brothers, with The Matrix being their follow-up in 1999. Most recently, Jupiter Ascending should’ve been out by now but for no apparent reason, and after …
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Pioneer on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Pioneer is a thriller set partly underwater in which, after huge oil and gas reserves are discovered in the North Sea in the 1970s, the race is on to lay a pipeline deep in the …
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Guardians of the Galaxy IMAX 3D – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Guardians of the Galaxy is a film where I had no knowledge of its connection with the Marvel Universe, since I only follow what gets released in cinemas, rather than scrutinising the minutiae of the …
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The Expendables 3 – The DVDfever cinema review
The Expendables 3 is, obviously, the third in the, hopefully, just a trilogy of films about aging action stars getting cameos in a last throw of the dice, for some of them. The first one, …
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Locke on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Locke is the surname of Ivan Locke, and this is the film where Tom Hardy, as the titular character, is the only one seen onscreen. He’s a construction site foreman and it’s the eve of …
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Top Dog on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Top Dog sets out the life of Billy Evans (Leo Gregory) early, showing hwo he sorts out a chav’s vociferous dispute in a Chinese takeway by delivering some non-fatal justice that ensures he will never …
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Noah on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Noah begins with a crash court of biblical mythology about Adam & Eve’s sons, where Cain killed Abel, and something about the Watchers, and temptation leading to sin, and the big man upstairs deciding to …
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