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Cake begins with a therapy group coming to terms with the suicide of young mother Nina (Anna Kendrick), and instantly shows that the film will be liberally sprinkled with black humour. Claire Bennett (Jennifer Aniston) …
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Wild Tales on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Wild Tales contains six stories about people whose lives really haven’t gone the way they planned, leading to a lot of it going downhill. There’s a lot that rings true in this film, as you …
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Odyssey Episodes 1 and 2 – The DVDfever Review
Odyssey is a new biopic series on a band who were fantastic, back in their day. They kicked off in 1977 with the dancefloor-filler Native New Yorker, which made No.5 over here in the UK, …
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Jonathan Strange And Mr Norrell: The Complete Series – The DVDfever Review
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell is a TV adaptation based on a novel by Susanna Clarke. Since I don’t read books, I’d never heard of it before, but when the trailer appeared on TV, I …
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The Affair Episode 8 – The DVDfever Review
The Affair Episode 8 finds us back with Noah, as almost always usual. School’s in and he’s teaching again, and comparing Romeo and Juliet to the troubles in his own relationship. Next, he goes for …
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Batman Arkham Knight on PC – The DVDfever Not-Quite-A-Review
Batman Arkham Knight is the third and final entry in the quadrilogy, following Batman: Arkham Asylum, Batman: Arkham City and Batman: Arkham Origins, the latter of which I played, on PS3, and I found it …
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Inherent Vice on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Inherent Vice is a very bizarre film which is difficult to describe, but I’ll dig it a go. Joaquin Phoenix plays private eye Larry “Doc” Sportello, who specialises in looking for people. First he’s looking …
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Selma on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Selma is the starting point of an important march which took place in 1965, as part of Martin Luther King’s campaign in looking to secure equal voting rights for black people, following his “I Have …
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Whiplash on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Whiplash stars the relatively unknown (to me, at least) Miles Teller as Andrew, a student who loves drumming. Schaffer University music bod Terrence Fletcher (JK Simmons) also loves his drumming, as he spots the lad’s …
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The Affair Episode 7 – The DVDfever Review
The Affair Episode 7 begins again with Noah, and both he and Helen are with Whitney’s shrink just before they all go back home… and she can sense that one of her parents is having …
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