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Grimsby started off with a better title, in my eyes – The Brothers Grimsby, it being a play on the Brothers Grimm, even though it’s not a fairy tale, so perhaps that’s why they changed …
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Life Stripped Bare – Channel 4 documentary – The DVDfever Review
Life Stripped Bare is a bizarre one-off documentary looking at whether an individual can live without any of their possessions. For example, fashion designer Heidi has 1027 items in her flat. This includes her phone, …
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Asian Connection on DVD – The DVDfever Review
Asian Connection is the first new Steven Seagal movie – with him in a lead role – I’ve seen in possibly two decades. In the meantime there was Machete where he attempted to do away …
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Brief Encounters Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review
Brief Encounters summarises the story of Jacqueline Gold, for ITV-friendly audiences, about how she started a business selling exotic lingerie and ‘marital aids’ at parties within the homes of her friends, under the Ann Summers …
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Return of the Killer Tomatoes on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Return of the Killer Tomatoes is the first film I watched after Andrei Tarkovsky’s Ivan’s Childhood, and the two films couldn’t be any more different. I have to say, at this point, that I have …
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Ivan’s Childhood on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Ivan’s Childhood centres around twelve-year-old Ivan (Nikolay Burlyaev), who gets involved with the Russians in World War II, acting as a scout for them behind German enemy lines. I found it a bit odd to …
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Triple 9 on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Triple 9 centres around a four-man gang of ne’er-do-wells, headstrong Mike (Chiwetel Ejiofor – Doctor Strange, The Martian), junkie Gabe (Aaron Paul – Need For Speed, Central Intelligence) and two corrupt cops, Marcus (Anthony Mackie …
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Mighty No.9 on PS4 – The DVDfever Review
Mighty No.9‘s review starts with identifying that this game was funded through KickStarter and was probably one of the most anticipated titles for gamers for a long time. It was published by Deep Silver, who …
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Odin Sphere Leifthrasir on Playstation Vita – The DVDfever Review
Odin Sphere Leifthrasir is developed by Atlus and Vanillaware. Atlus are responsible for games like Trine 2 and Persona 5 (very much looking forward to this). They have strong links with the old giants Sega …
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Dino Dini’s Kick Off Revival on PS4 – The DVDfever Review
Dino Dini’s Kick Off Revival brings back to videogames one of the classic football gaming memories of my comparative youth. I don’t watch football on TV, but do love a great videogame about it. Never …
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