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Dough – is dough as in bread, not money, although you have to spend money to buy bread, and that’s also a problem for Nat Dayan (Jonathan Pryce), an orthodox jew who runs a failing …
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Toni Erdmann on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Toni Erdmann is a film I was very sceptical when Mark Kermode said that there’s not a thing he would cut from a comedy which runs for almost three hours, especially since I would say …
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The Legacy Season 3 on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
The Legacy Season 3 is a series I was in, initially, two minds about watching. I loved the first one, but found the second treaded water far too much, as if they’d run out of …
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Pirates of the Caribbean: Salazar’s Revenge – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Pirates of the Caribbean: Salazar’s Revenge is the first one in the series I’ve watched properly. I never got into them when they first started, so I gave the first one a try a short …
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Detour – The DVDfever Cinema Review – one of 2017’s must-see movies
Detour is a film which, from the trailer, looked like it could end up hit-or-miss, but in the full telling will most likely be one of my Top 10 films of the year. Law student …
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Jawbone – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Jawbone tells the underdog tale of former child-star boxing champion Jimmy McCabe (Johnny Harris). His best years are long behind him, thanks heavy drinking and the fact that the council want to evict him from …
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Alien Covenant – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Alien Covenant could just really be called Covenant, since that’s the name of the spaceship in this movie, like the previous one’s Prometheus… which was just called Prometheus, and not Alien Prometheus… not that it …
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Away – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Timothy Spall, Juno Temple
Away is where everyone wants to get to, once in a while, but here, it’s the mismatched pairing of widower Joseph (Timothy Spall) and ex-junkie Ria (Juno Temple), as they meet in a film which …
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Unlocked – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Unlocked stars Noomi Rapace (Prometheus, Rupture) as Alice Racine, a CIA agent who had her fill of the frontline action when an operation in Paris, 2012, resulted in lot of civilian casualties. She hasn’t been …
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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.2 – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.2 is kinda stuck in the past…. 2014, to be precise. It’s a bit like Rogue One in that it hops from planet to planet at the start before settling down, …
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