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Captain America: The First Avenger: It was like going from the sublime to a smack in the eye. I had planned to see Arrietty, the Ghibli animated Japanese movie tonight but was astonished to see …
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Limitless – The DVDfever Review
Limitless begins with Eddie Morra (Bradley Cooper) wearing a smart suit and standing atop a high building about to throw himself off from the penthouse suite. But why? Well, if I say it’s because baddies …
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The Round-Up on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
The Round-Up is set in the France in July 1942, during the Second World War when the Nazis forced their occupation and, on Hitler’s order, rounded-up all the Jews to take them to internment camps, …
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Unknown on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Unknown stars Liam Neeson as Dr Martin Harris, a man who’s taken a trip to Berlin for a biotechnology summit so he can give a presentation, with his wife, Elizabeth (January Jones), accompanying him on …
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The Adjustment Bureau on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
The Adjustment Bureau stars Matt Damon as David Norris, a man who wants to be the next Senator of New York, but when he’s way out in the lead, a newspaper scandal threatens to derail …
Continue readingSwinging with the Finkels – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Swinging with the Finkels: Let me offer a word of congratulation – Jonathan Newman deserves a bottle of champagne for the title. Why? Because it makes his movie sound an awful lot more fun than …
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Don’t Look Now Special Edition – The DVDfever Blu-ray Review
Don’t Look Now is a film I hadn’t seen prior to its debut on Blu-ray, but with Nicolas Roeg at the helm, it’s got to have some dodgy shenanigans in it and I don’t just …
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Incendies – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Incendies: You have read much about my view of the importance of endings during the past six months. Too many movies have finales which just seem away and leave a sense of dissatisfaction. Some, as …
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Brighton Rock (2010) on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Brighton Rock is a remake of the 1947 film, directed by John Boulting, changing the setting from the 1930s to 1964, during the mods and rockers era, where Kite, the leader of a gang, is …
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X-Men First Class – The DVDfever Cinema Review
X-Men First Class comes from what might be the most successful film studio in recent years but I have to admit that most of Marvel’s giant-sized productions have left me cold. Sure, I really like …
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