Pioneer is a thriller set partly underwater in which, after huge oil and gas reserves are discovered in the North Sea in the 1970s, the race is on to lay a pipeline deep in the …
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Guardians of the Galaxy IMAX 3D – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Guardians of the Galaxy is a film where I had no knowledge of its connection with the Marvel Universe, since I only follow what gets released in cinemas, rather than scrutinising the minutiae of the …
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The Expendables 3 – The DVDfever cinema review
The Expendables 3 is, obviously, the third in the, hopefully, just a trilogy of films about aging action stars getting cameos in a last throw of the dice, for some of them. The first one, …
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Locke on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Locke is the surname of Ivan Locke, and this is the film where Tom Hardy, as the titular character, is the only one seen onscreen. He’s a construction site foreman and it’s the eve of …
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Top Dog on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Top Dog sets out the life of Billy Evans (Leo Gregory) early, showing hwo he sorts out a chav’s vociferous dispute in a Chinese takeway by delivering some non-fatal justice that ensures he will never …
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Sniper Elite III on PS3 – The DVDfever Review
Sniper Elite III is here and while there is a story, you know that the reason you’re here is for the moments where you get to fire off a slow-motion sniper shot, resulting in an …
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Noah on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Noah begins with a crash court of biblical mythology about Adam & Eve’s sons, where Cain killed Abel, and something about the Watchers, and temptation leading to sin, and the big man upstairs deciding to …
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Transformers: Age of Extinction IMAX 3D – The DVDfever cinema review
Transformers: Age of Extinction is so-called because it involves the dinosaurs and, as the film begins, we see them being wiped out, circa 65 million BC, but this time it’s because an asteroid has hit …
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The Zero Theorem on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
The Zero Theorem is one of those off-the-wall films I wanted to see when it came out at the cinema, but my local Odeon criminally ignored it, and while I could’ve found somewhere in Manchester …
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The Grand Budapest Hotel on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
The Grand Budapest Hotel makes its way on to Blu-ray and DVD, with a bold instruction at the start of the film: “PLEASE SET YOUR MONITOR TO 16X9”. You’ll see why in due course. The …
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