A Most Violent Year stars Inside Llewyn Davis‘ Oscar Isaac as Abel Morales, who is a good man, in principle, running a business to supply oil. He’s buying a new facility which will allow him …
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Mad Max: Fury Road – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Mad Max: Fury Road has a very complex plot… well, actually, it has no discernable plot. Then again, I can’t remember if the original three films did, either, where the part of ‘Mad’ Max Rockatansky …
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Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell Episode 1 – 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 Long Good Friday Special Edition on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
The Long Good Friday is a film which I didn’t really ‘get’ when I was younger. i would’ve been in my teens when I first saw it. The late, great Bob Hoskins plays Harold Shand, …
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The Affair Episodes 1 and 2 – The DVDfever Review
The Affair rolled out onto Sky Atlantic with not as much fanfare as the terrible Fortitude, but in the two leading American character roles, it starred the distinctly British Dominic West and Ruth Wilson, both …
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State of Decay: Year One Edition on Xbox One – The DVDfever Review
State of Decayis back for another bite, this time as a Year One Edition. The rot this time is far less rotten. So what’s new in this year one edition remaster? Well, the user interface …
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Spooks: The Greater Good – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Spooks: The Greater Good begins with a number of the MI5 team stuck in a typical London traffic jam, transporting evil terrorist Qasim (Elyes Gabel). Quite why they didn’t wait until rush hour was over …
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Satyricon (aka Fellini Satyricon) on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Satyricon, by Federico Fellini, is one of the most bizarre cinematic experiences ever committed to celluloid, in my view. I first saw it at Keele Film Society back in the early 1990s. The brochure described …
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No Offence Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review
No Offence is the latest Paul Abbott drama to come to Channel 4 in a blaze of publicity, with the same trailer being shown about 954 times in the past few weeks, or so it …
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The Duke of Burgundy on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
The Duke of Burgundy centres around a ‘master and servant’ BDSM relationship, with Cynthia (Borgen‘s Sidse Babett Knudsen) lording it over Evelyn (Chiara D’Anna), for example, making the latter clean the house whilst crawling around …
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