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John Wick says, “People keep asking am I back? Well, yeah! I’m thinking I’m back!” Back from where? We’ve never heard of you before, Mr Wick! In fact, he’s got to come back from the …
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Big Game on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Big Game begins with 13-year-old Oskari (Onni Tommila) living in the woods with his father. His Dad is one of those movie Dads who gives a lot of important instruction to his child at the …
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Cider With Rosie (2015) – The DVDfever Review
Cider With Rosie is based on the late Laurie Lee‘s novel, partly autobiographical, telling the story of his growing up coming-of-age story set in the Cotswolds, in Gloucestershire, staring off during World War I and …
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The Witch’s Familiar – Doctor Who Series 9 Episode 2 – The DVDfever Review
The Witch’s Familiar is the second episode in Series 9, and I was so hoping for a return to form, of sorts, after the disappointment of the much-hyped series opener, The Magician’s Apprentice. Did it …
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Midwinter of the Spirit Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review
Midwinter of the Spirit did something that I don’t think I’ve ever seen in any other TV drama ever made – they finally gave a leading role to the brilliant Anna Maxwell Martin! The supernatural …
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Girlhood on DVD – The DVDfever Review
Girlhood tells the coming-of-age tale of Marieme (Karidja Touré, below-right), a 16-year-old girl in a rough Parisian neighbourhood still trying to find where she belongs in the pecking order of life. In looking after her …
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The Go-Between (2015) – The DVDfever Review
The Go-Between is set in Norfolk, 1900, but begins in 1950 with the elderly Leo Colston (Jim Broadbent) lamenting in bucketfully. He wails (in his narration), “The past is a foreign country. They do things …
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The Magician’s Apprentice – Doctor Who Series 9 Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review
The Magician’s Apprentice is the first episode in Series 9 (if you’re only counting new series since 2005) and apparently the preview reviews had said it was amazing. Well, all the mainstream reviewers of the …
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Zardoz Special Edition on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Zardoz stars Sean Connery as Zed. He understands that Zardoz says if you obey him then you’ll go to a vortex when you die and live forever. So, Zed’s dead? This is another of those …
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Eaten Alive (1976) Special Edition on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Eaten Alive, directed by Tobe Hooper, is not to be confused with 1980’s horror movie of the same name, which was directed by Nightmare City‘s Umberto Lenzi that same year, even if the plot is …
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