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Let’s get one thing straight first – I didn’t like 28 Days Later, but this sequel has a different director and cast, so I’m all for giving it a chance. In fact, it has the …
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5ive Girls on DVD – The DVDfever Review
Take 5ive Girls… No, this is not a follow-up to the 1969 series starring Liza Goddard and Peter Bowles, but a movie set at the rather sparse St Mark’s School for Girls which was shut …
Continue readingX-Men 3: The Last Stand: Special Edition – The DVDfever Review
X-Men 3: The Last Stand: While the first X-Men movie did nothing for me, the sequel was a real blast and this third outing is just as good even though it might annoy purists of …
Continue reading16 Blocks on DVD – The DVDfever Review
16 Blocks stars Bruce Willis plays Detective Jack Mosley, a worn-out cop with an alcohol problem and the title comes from the fact that he’s got just 118 minutes (not in real time, before you …
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Along Came Polly on DVD – The DVDfever Review – Jennifer Aniston
Along Came Polly stars Jennifer Aniston, whose films fall into two categories – “Rachel from Friends” and “well worth watching”. Sadly, this is not the latter, although the only one that did hit the spot …
Continue readingSex Lives of the Potato Men on DVD – The DVDfever Review
If there was ever a film with unfair criticism heaped upon it by those who had never seen it, it was this year’s British comedy Sex Lives of the Potato Men. That’s not to say …
Continue readingEightball on DVD – The DVDfever Review
Eightball is a low-budget movie and the first feature-length one for writer/director Robert Allison. The plot is far from an original one as hitman Jon (Max Woollen, bottom-right) plans to do one last job before …
Continue readingX-Men 2: Special Edition on DVD – The DVDfever Review
X-Men 2: I’ve never read an X-Men comic, didn’t think much of the first film as it just washed over me completely and so I really wasn’t expecting a great deal from this sequel. Thankfully, …
Continue readingAbout Schmidt on DVD – The DVDfever Review
About Schmidt: Warren R. Schmidt has retired, and he’s at a loss. He’s been married to the same woman for 42 years and has been working in the same job for as long as he …
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Adaptation on DVD – The DVDfever Review – Nicolas Cage, Spike Jonze
Adaptation shows Spike Jonze is not known for being the most straight-forward director. I hugely enjoyed his previous main feature, Being John Malkovich, although it wasn’t perfect. Then when you watch his latest work, Adaptation, …
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