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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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Apocalypse Now Redux on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Apocalypse Now Redux: Bizarre and captivating are two words I can use to describe this film. Francis Ford Coppola‘s contribution to the Vietnam war films which has neither opening, nor official closing credits. In fact, …
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Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides 3D – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides: Recently, famous film critic Mark Kermode twittered that he was going to see this fourth installment of Pirates of the Caribbean and indicated he was going to keep …
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The Hangover Part II – The DVDfever Cinema review
The Hangover Part II: In 2009, The Hangover was one of my films of the year. From minute one, the jokes just kept coming and I laughed like never before or since at the cinema. …
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The Mechanic (2011) on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
The Mechanic: Now, are you familiar with the works of Oscar Wilde? Because Jason Statham isn’t. He plays Arthur Bishop, a cold, emotionless hitman who does his best to make the hits look like accidents, …
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Taxi Driver: 35th Anniversary Re-release – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Taxi Driver: I am preparing to commit sacrilege, but I don’t think it passes the test of time. There you are, I’ve said it. My film reviewers’ credibility (if I had any) has just gone …
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Priest 3D – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Priest 3D: I’m sorry, but this film has inspired me into a rant. And it’s not just to complain that it was a bad film (it was really awful, but more of that later). No, …
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