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Ronin is the name given to Japanese Samurai swordsmen sworn to protect their liege after they had failed in their duty, forcing them to wander the land looking for work as hired swords and bandits. …
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Mindhorn on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Mindhorn is a comedy which had me at ‘hello’ when I first saw the trailer, right before I was about to watch Free Fire, so I was gutted when the studio didn’t send enough prints …
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Whitney: Can I Be Me on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Whitney: Can I Be Me is one of those documentaries about an individual where I wasn’t particular enamoured with their output, but I was fascinated with how their rise and fall played out. There’s no …
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Tim Vine Travels In Time – Comedy Playhouse 2017 – The DVDfever Review
Tim Vine Travels In Time is the first in a new series of BBC1’s Comedy Playhouse and it has all the style of an explosion in a paint factory. Dom RobinsonReviewer of movies, videogames and …
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Educating Greater Manchester Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review
Educating Greater Manchester is the latest in Channel 4’s ‘Educating’ series, and I’ve seen occasional episodes of previous ones, but since I live in Greater Manchester and like seeing our great city on the telly, …
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Logan Lucky – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Logan Lucky is rather an odd title, and doesn’t trip off the tongue as well as ‘Lucky Logan’ would’ve done, but then how much luck is in store for anyone in this movie remains to …
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American Made – The DVDfever Cinema Review
American Made begins in 1978, but is told in flashback from late 2015, with Tom Cruise as Barry Seal, who flies planes very adeptly for TWA, but is not adverse to using the trips to …
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The Great British Bake Off – Channel 4 Episode 1 (Series 8) – The DVDfever Review
The Great British Bake Off is a programme I’ve never seen before, but when it was announced that it was making the move from BBC1 to Channel 4, in an expensive £75m three-year deal, fans …
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The Endless Summer Special Edition on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
The Endless Summer is documentary filmmaker Bruce Brown’s movie about the search for the perfect wave, and how the ultimate achievement is to get covered by the wave, as if you’re riding through a tube. …
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Strike – The Cuckoo’s Calling – Complete Series – The DVDfever Review
Strike… Cormoran Strike. Who on Earth has a surname of Strike? Maybe that’s why JK picked it. Yes, JK Rowling, since Robert Galbraith, the ‘author’ of the books on which this series is based, is …
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