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Love and Mercy has a situation I don’t ever remember coming across before – a biopic with two actors playing the same person across a period of time. Before watching this, I thought it would …
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The Big Short – The DVDfever Cinema Review
The Big Short doesn’t sound like the typical movie that would excite an audience – a drama based on bankers and the impending collapse of the housing market towards the end of the last decade. …
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Momentum on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Momentum took a little bit of time before it enticed me in, but once it had, it provided an engaging, if daft, way of spending 90 minutes or so. It begins with a bank raid …
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The Rack Pack – BBC iPlayer Exclusive – The DVDfever Review
The Rack Pack is a new BBC film, and the first produced exclusively for BBC iPlayer, which concentrates on the rise and fall of Alex Higgins, World Snooker Champion for 1972 and 1982, as well …
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Creed – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Creed begins briefly back in 1998 when the hero of the piece was just a a wayward child who thought punching other kids in the face was the only way to get ahead. Really, it …
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Brian Pern: 45 Years Of Prog And Roll Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review
Brian Pern: 45 Years Of Prog And Roll brings Simon Day‘s aging rocker back to our screens for a third series, just over a year after the last one. Aptly, in that time, Pern has …
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The Revenant – The DVDfever Cinema Review
The Revenant refers to a person who has returned, and supposedly from the dead. In this case, it’s Hugh Glass (no, not Hugh Jass), portrayed by Leonardo DiCaprio. As we’re introduced to this frontiersman in …
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Insurgent: The Divergent Series – The DVDfever Review
Insurgent begins with the kids from Fame – all running and smiling after escaping the evil Jeanine (Kate Winslet) – going to Amity to hide out for a while, but all is not plain sailing, …
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Fifty Shades Of Grey: The Unseen Edition – The DVDfever Review
Fifty Shades Of Grey is the film I never saw at the cinema, based on the book I never read. But then I don’t read books, anyway. And I didn’t go to see it at …
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Love 3D on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Love 3D begins with the onscreen announcements: “The theater management warns you” and then the screen changes to “Put your glasses on. ‘Love’ will start in a few seconds”. But then surely if you’re watching …
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