Everest is the tale of how Ted Moult built up his famous double-glazing company… Well, at least that’s what I was led to believe… (not really). As of 1992, it had become a business for …
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Under The Lake – Doctor Who Series 9 Episode 3 – The DVDfever Review
Under The Lake was set in such an environment due to the fact that it wasn’t always underwater. The base is a flooded military town. Quite why such a place wouldn’t suddenly be abandoned, I …
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John Wick on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
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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