The Big Short doesn’t sound like the typical movie that would excite an audience – a drama based on bankers and the impending collapse of the housing market towards the end of the last decade. …
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Momentum on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Momentum took a little bit of time before it enticed me in, but once it had, it provided an engaging, if daft, way of spending 90 minutes or so. It begins with a bank raid …
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The Rack Pack – BBC iPlayer Exclusive – The DVDfever Review
The Rack Pack is a new BBC film, and the first produced exclusively for BBC iPlayer, which concentrates on the rise and fall of Alex Higgins, World Snooker Champion for 1972 and 1982, as well …
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Creed – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Creed begins briefly back in 1998 when the hero of the piece was just a a wayward child who thought punching other kids in the face was the only way to get ahead. Really, it …
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Brian Pern: 45 Years Of Prog And Roll Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review
Brian Pern: 45 Years Of Prog And Roll brings Simon Day‘s aging rocker back to our screens for a third series, just over a year after the last one. Aptly, in that time, Pern has …
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The Revenant – The DVDfever Cinema Review
The Revenant refers to a person who has returned, and supposedly from the dead. In this case, it’s Hugh Glass (no, not Hugh Jass), portrayed by Leonardo DiCaprio. As we’re introduced to this frontiersman in …
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Insurgent: The Divergent Series – The DVDfever Review
Insurgent begins with the kids from Fame – all running and smiling after escaping the evil Jeanine (Kate Winslet) – going to Amity to hide out for a while, but all is not plain sailing, …
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Fifty Shades Of Grey: The Unseen Edition – The DVDfever Review
Fifty Shades Of Grey is the film I never saw at the cinema, based on the book I never read. But then I don’t read books, anyway. And I didn’t go to see it at …
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Love 3D on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Love 3D begins with the onscreen announcements: “The theater management warns you” and then the screen changes to “Put your glasses on. ‘Love’ will start in a few seconds”. But then surely if you’re watching …
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Tracey Ullman’s Show Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review
Tracey Ullman’s Show is the comedienne’s first programme for UK television since ITV’s Girls On Top back in 1983 and presumably she couldn’t call it the more customary title of The Tracey Ullman Show as …
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