Rollerball is 40 years old this year, and is another of those classic movies which Arrow are bringing to the small screen with the Special Edition Blu-ray treatment. Set in the near future, Jonathan E …
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The Ark – The DVDfever Review
The Ark – characters talkling in broad Mancunian accents – led by David Threlfall, children defying their parents and gallivanting the night away, and the whole thing filmed in a 2.35:1 cinemascope-style widescreen ratio to …
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Coalition – The DVDfever Review
Coalition is a Channel 4 drama based on the week following the 2010 UK general election, as Labour came to the end of a chequered 13-year term in government, with the Tories snapping at their …
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Fortitude Episode 10 – The DVDfever Review
Fortitude Episode 10 begins with Henry enjoying the only thing you can enjoy about this dire series – the snowy hilltops on a clear day, as he listens to his old-fangled Sony Walkman. Lorcan Cranitch …
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La Couchette – Inside No.9 Series 2 Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review
La Couchette, the first episode of series 2 of Inside No.9, wasn’t just looking at who lives at No.9, but more specifically, 9A, 9B and so on up until 9F, since it took place in …
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The Drop on DVD – The DVDfever Review
The Drop is set in a bar in Brooklyn, where everyone effects a ‘New Yoik’ accent, regardless of whether they’re the late, great James Gandolfini, or London-born Tom Hardy. It starts with a group commiserating …
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The Gunman – The DVDfever Cinema Review
The Gunman stars Sean Penn in the lead role as action man Jim Terrier. He’s one of a number of men, involved in an operation far away, where they all did very bad things that …
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Network Special Edition on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Network is one of those classic films I haven’t seen until now, this one being centered around Howard Beale (Peter Finch), a fantastically successful newscaster whose luck started to change in 1969 when his ratings …
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Paddington on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Paddington is the one about the bear from darkest Peru who came to live with the Brown family in London, whilst having a fetish for marmalade sandwiches. From his origins in book form in 1958, …
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Fortitude Episode 9 – The DVDfever Review
Fortitude Episode 9 begins by showing us Ronnie’s brutal murder but not showing who did the deed. Was it Frank? Then we cut to Liam, having spent most of the series in that bloody hyperbaric …
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