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We Need To Talk About Kevin is a film I’d heard a lot of great things about prior to watching it, not least from Mark Kermode who declared it his favourite film of 2011. While …
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Chronicle – The DVDfever cinema review
Chronicle begins with no opening credits, and simply with Andrew Detmer (Dane DeHaan, below-right) setting up his video camera which he’ll take with him everywhere. It’s not 100% clear *why* he’s doing this, other than …
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Underworld Awakening 3D – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Underworld: Awakening is the second sequel in the Underworld series, with Underworld: Rise of the Lycans being the prequel to the first film Underworld and Underworld: Evolution being the first sequel… Got it? Good. I …
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On Becoming a Ghost E.P. by Old Suits, a new alternative Manchester band
Old Suits are a new alternative pop band from Manchester and are formed from previous bands including Random Project and Kid Galahad, the latter of which had a fantastic track called Punk, which I used …
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Tyrannosaur on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Tyrannosaur: When the menu appears for this film, it features a long shot of a house with, buried just below, the bones of a Tyrannosaurus Rex. This is no venture for the Time Team, but …
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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – I’ll start this review by the admission that I have never seen the original series, so cannot compare Gary Oldman to Alec Guinness, even though it feels like the former …
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Rolling Thunder on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Rolling Thunder stars William Devane as Major Charles Rane, who comes home from Vietnam after spending seven years in a prisoner of war camp and greets his young son who barely remembers him from before …
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Melancholia on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Melancholia starts with a number of very slo-mo shots, nothing making particular sense – at this point, even if I was to try and describe them, such as a horse falling down backwards, a woman …
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The Guard on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
The Guard: It’s not long into this film before we realise just how unorthodox the behaviours are of Sergeant Gerry Boyle (Brendan Gleeson) when he disturbs a crime scene by taking some pieces of paper …
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Kill List on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Kill List gets off to a powerful start with a domestic row between ex-soldier Jay (Neil Maskell, below) and Shel (MyAnna Buring, bottom picture) about… well, what do married couples usually argue about? Money. The …
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