Inside Llewyn Davis starts off at the Gaslight Cafe, 1961, where Llewyn Davis (Oscar Isaac) sings “Hang Me, Oh Hang Me”. From there, we follow a week in the life of this struggling folk singer, …
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X-Men Days of Future Past – The DVDfever Cinema Review
X-Men Days of Future Past is the second in what will no doubt end up as a trilogy of ‘young X-Men’ films, where the younger roles of the two lead characters are played by James …
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The Beast Within: Special Edition on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
The Beast Within is a film I hadn’t seen before, or even heard of prior to this release, but Ronny Cox was so damn good in 1987’s original Robocop as OCP big cheese Dick Jones. …
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Godzilla – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Godzilla is the monster that just won’t stay dead, or at the very least, attempt to be killed. I enjoyed Roland Emmerich’s 1998 take on the character, as an enjoyable piece of hokum, and while …
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Gregory’s Girl on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Gregory’s Girl is one of the all-time ’80s classic movies which I watched when growing up and this new Blu-ray released, restored by Pinewood, even starts with the BBFC “A” certificate board which would’ve been …
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Theatre of Blood: Special Edition on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Theatre of Blood is one of the all-time classic Vincent Price movies, in my book. That, and the two Dr Phibes films (also out next month from Arrow) freaked me out as a child big-time. …
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Sisters: Special Edition on Dual-format Blu-ray and DVD – The DVDfever Review
Sisters features Margot Kidder as Siamese twins – yes, double helpings of Lois Lane! After winning some patronising prizes on a cheesy TV gameshow, Danielle (Margot Kidder) – who won some cheesy kitchen cutlery, and …
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Nymphomaniac Vol I. & Vol II. on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Nymphomaniac shows that Lars Von Trier doesn’t do things by halves, as his latest opus makes it to Blu-ray and DVD in a 2-part story totalling a shade over four hours. Vol.I begins with Joe …
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The Amazing Spider-Man 2 IMAX 3D – The DVDfever Cinema Review
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 gives Andrew Garfield his inevitable second appearance as the titular hero, given the success of 2012’s first outing. And given the packed crowds on Good Friday for this sequel, no doubt …
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Divergent – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Divergent is one of those post-apocalyptic dramas.. dystopian near-future, blah blah blah… and in this one, the war has forced the government to segregate everyone into one of five factions: Erudite – the place for …
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