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Tyrannosaur: When the menu appears for this film, it features a long shot of a house with, buried just below, the bones of a Tyrannosaurus Rex. This is no venture for the Time Team, but …
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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – I’ll start this review by the admission that I have never seen the original series, so cannot compare Gary Oldman to Alec Guinness, even though it feels like the former …
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Rolling Thunder on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Rolling Thunder stars William Devane as Major Charles Rane, who comes home from Vietnam after spending seven years in a prisoner of war camp and greets his young son who barely remembers him from before …
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Melancholia on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Melancholia starts with a number of very slo-mo shots, nothing making particular sense – at this point, even if I was to try and describe them, such as a horse falling down backwards, a woman …
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The Guard on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
The Guard: It’s not long into this film before we realise just how unorthodox the behaviours are of Sergeant Gerry Boyle (Brendan Gleeson) when he disturbs a crime scene by taking some pieces of paper …
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Kill List on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Kill List gets off to a powerful start with a domestic row between ex-soldier Jay (Neil Maskell, below) and Shel (MyAnna Buring, bottom picture) about… well, what do married couples usually argue about? Money. The …
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Howard Jones Live – Human’s Lib and Dream Into Action at the Indigo2, London on DVD – The DVDfever Review
Howard Jones Live – Human’s Lib and Dream Into Action at the Indigo2, London: When it comes to Howard Jones performing these two albums, I expected the albums to come one after the other, in …
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The Devil’s Double on DVD – The DVDfever Review
The Devil’s Double begins with Latif Yahia (Dominic Cooper, below) being driven to meet one of Saddam Hussein’s sons, Uday. It soon becomes clear to us that they are more than just a little bit …
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The London Korean Film Festival 2011 – The DVDfever Review
The London Korean Film Festival 2011: Right now it seems as if there’s a film festival for every genre and every country. But I can honestly say that the recent 2011 Korean Film Festival – …
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London Film Festival 2011 Part 3: The DVDfever Awards (Oct 12th-27th)
AND THE AWARD GOES TO… This was such a richly rewarding London Film Festival that DVDfever split its retrospective coverage in three. In the first two, longer instalments we looked in depth at the movies …
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