Film Stars Don’t Die In Liverpool is set in the Scouse city in 1981, and it wasn’t until after I saw this that I discovered it was based on a true story. I hadn’t heard …
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McCabe and Mrs Miller: The Premium Collection on Blu-ray & DVD combo – The DVDfever Review
McCabe and Mrs Miller is one of those ‘drifter comes into town and makes big impression’ stories, a Hollywood staple over the years, and especially so in the ’70s for Westerns, particularly when they have …
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Badlands: The Premium Collection on Blu-ray & DVD combo – The DVDfever Review
Badlands is one of those films I saw many moons ago but haven’t seen since. Why? I’m not sure, since I absolutely loved it and in this new release, it was great to catch it …
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Paddington 2 on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Paddington 2: This Time It’s Personal… no, that was Jaws IV: The Revenge, but both feature individuals who are little alien in their respective environments because they’re getting hassled by ‘the man’. There’s a complex …
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Call Me By Your Name on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Call Me By Your Name takes place in Northern Italy, over the summer of 1983 and centres around 17-year-old Elio Perlman (Timothée Chalamet), and the older, Oliver (Armie Hammer), who’s hired to help Elio’s professor …
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The Killing of a Sacred Deer on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
The Killing of a Sacred Deer is one of those films where I just didn’t *get* the title and the trailer at first, but as soon as I saw it was made by Yorgos Lanthimos, …
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The Dark Crystal Deluxe Edition on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review – includes Blu-ray & 4K Unboxings!
The Dark Crystal is one of those films I was never into back in the day, but on viewing just over 35 years later, in this Deluxe Edition, I can see how so much work …
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Breathe on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Breathe tells the true story of Robin Cavendish (Andrew Garfield) and his wife, Diana (Claire Foy). Just as life is beginning for them as a married couple, with a baby on the way, he’s struck …
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After The Storm – Hirokazu Koreeda Family Values Boxset on Blu-ray and DVD combo – The DVDfever Review
After The Storm centres around unrepetentant gambler Ryôta Shinoda (Hiroshi Abe), who’s obviously short of money, but doesn’t want to lose too much else now that his father has passed away, and he’s becoming increasingly …
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Like Father, Like Son – Hirokazu Koreeda Family Values Boxset on Blu-ray and DVD combo – The DVDfever Review
Like Father, Like Son initially centres around workaholic father Ryota Nonomiya (Fukuyama Masaharu), his put-upon wife Midori (Ono Machiko) and their 6-year-old son, Keita (Keita Ninomiya), with a family life that can just about be …
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