Josh’s (Robert Burke) hitch-hike at the start of The Unbelievable Truth comes to an abrupt halt when he tells his new passengers that he’s just been released from prison, which is rather the sort of …
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Pi: 15th Anniversary Special Edition on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Pi, in theory, should be a never-ending story… Thankfully, it’s not. Max Cohen (Sean Gullette) is a very paranoid individual, obsessed in looking for the one number which somehow explains how nature works with all …
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Only God Forgives – The DVDfever cinema review
Only God Forgives stars Ryan Gosling as Julian, a man who’s emigrated from the US to Bangkok and making a great living as a drug dealer, using a boxing club as a front for his …
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A Late Quartet on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
A Late Quartet was a great cinema experience with fantastic performances from everyone and is now out on Blu-ray & DVD, courtesy of Curzon Film World. The film begins with the band appearing on stage …
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Dressed To Kill: Special Edition on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Dressed To Kill is another in a long line of classic films from Arrow, being released on Blu-ray for the first time, and which I hadn’t seen before in any form. When it comes to …
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The World’s End – The DVDfever Cinema Review
There’s something that rang true about Simon Pegg’s character, Gary King, in the last of the Cornetto trilogy, The World’s End. And that is that we’re witness to a man who finished school in June …
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Runaway Train: Special Edition on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Runaway Train does what it says on the tin, but before we get to that, we’re introduced to hard-nut criminal Oscar ‘Manny’ Manheim (Jon Voight), who’s just being released back into the general population of …
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The Car: Special Edition on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
“Jaws” in car form is how The Car has been described, so I took this ’70s action film for a test-drive and… oh, I can’t be doing with car puns. I’m too tyred. The premise …
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A Field In England – The DVDfever Review
A Field in England is a film that, I had a feeling would be an odd little movie and, on that score, I certainly wasn’t disappointed. Set in 1648, during the English Civil War, Whitehead …
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Simple Men on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review – Hal Hartley
Simple Men follows on from the release of another Hal Hartley Blu-ray debut, Amateur. It begins as Bill McCabe (Robert John Burke) conducts a robbery with Frank (James Hansen Prince) and Vera (Mary McKenzie), but …
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