The Martian is Matt Damon‘s character, Mark Watney, part of the six-strong Ares III mission, visiting the red planet to collect soil samples etc. Unfortunately, some planet seem to have worse weather than Greater Manchester …
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The Mutilator Special Edition on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
The Mutilator is not a movie title that’ll keep you up for night after night wondering what the plot might revolve around. Ed Jr (Matt Mitler) is heading out to spend fall break at his …
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Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle Series 4 Episode 1: Wealth – The DVDfever Review
Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle is rather like Luther – it comes round every 2-3 years and is to the TV schedules what oxygen is to our bodies – an essential requirement. Often, the programme is …
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Audition Special Edition on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Audition starts with the heart-wrending situation for Shigeharu Aoyama (Ryo Ishibashi) whose wife, Ryoko (Miyuki Matsuda), passes away. Seven years later, his son wants him to marry again. It’s not an easy task to meet …
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Brooklyn on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Brooklyn was one of those films where I saw the trailers and it just didn’t grab me. But then I saw all the BAFTA and Oscars interest; plus the fact that Saoirse Ronan is a …
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Assassins Creed Chronicles on Xbox One – The DVDfever Review
Assassins Creed Chronicles is the latest title in a franchise which has spawned many titles over the years since its debut in November 2007. The games are set in a fictional history while drawing inspiration …
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Dying Light: The Following Enhanced Edition on PC – The DVDfever Review
Dying Light is a game that passed me by upon its original release last year, partly because so many zombie games seem just the same – a never-ending samey hack ‘n’ slash againgst the undead …
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The Night Manager – The DVDfever Review – Tom Hiddleston
The Night Manager is the first John Le Carré novel to become a TV series in more than 20 years, following 1991’s TV movie, A Murder of Quality, starring Denholm Elliott, Joss Ackland and Glenda …
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The Program on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
The Progman centres around investigative Sunday Times sports writer David Walsh (Chris O’Dowd) covering the Tour de France, getting suspicious about Lance Armstrong’s (Ben Foster) team because they’re winning tour after tour, but Armstrong can’t …
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One Child Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review
One Child is part of BBC’s China Season and the title is also the policy within China of one child per household. That policy plays a part in this, but it doesn’t dominate the proceedings, …
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