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Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol: The ‘Ghost Protocol’ part of the title makes it sound super-cool and exciting, but in reality, it’s just a coded way of saying that the entire Impossible Mission Force (IMF) have …
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Braquo Season 1 on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Braquo Season 1, aka ‘Heist’, begins with Farid Benaissa (Adrien Saint-Joré), a prisoner denying that he and his friend raped a pregnant woman. He also refuses to give up his friend’s name, so cop Max …
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Justice on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Justice begins with a man being interviewed on camera, saying just a little and then his car is rammed off the top of a multi-storey car park and taking him to an early death. While …
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Snowtown on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Snowtown is set in the late 1990s, and begins with 16-year-old Jamie Vlassakis (Lucas Pittaway) living a very disatisfying home life. It’s bad enough that his parents are no longer together, but the man his …
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John Carter (of Mars) – The DVDfever Cinema Review
John Carter: Prior to seeing this film, I knew precious little about it. It wasn’t until seeing Mark Kermode’s review on BBC News that I realised it was originally entitled John Carter of Mars and …
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50/50 on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
50/50 is a film I wasn’t sure whether or not I would like, given how its premise didn’t seem to fit any kind of comedy bill, but I was very pleasantly surprised. When Adam (Joseph …
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Safe House – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Safe House is the kind of film where, for anyone who’s seen the trailer, you can simply check your brain at the door. It’s really not a film about rocket science. Matt Weston (Ryan Reynolds) …
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We Need To Talk About Kevin on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
We Need To Talk About Kevin is a film I’d heard a lot of great things about prior to watching it, not least from Mark Kermode who declared it his favourite film of 2011. While …
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Chronicle – The DVDfever cinema review
Chronicle begins with no opening credits, and simply with Andrew Detmer (Dane DeHaan, below-right) setting up his video camera which he’ll take with him everywhere. It’s not 100% clear *why* he’s doing this, other than …
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Underworld Awakening 3D – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Underworld: Awakening is the second sequel in the Underworld series, with Underworld: Rise of the Lycans being the prequel to the first film Underworld and Underworld: Evolution being the first sequel… Got it? Good. I …
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