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Swinging with the Finkels: Let me offer a word of congratulation – Jonathan Newman deserves a bottle of champagne for the title. Why? Because it makes his movie sound an awful lot more fun than …
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Red Faction Armageddon on Xbox 360 – The DVDfever Review
Red Faction Armageddon sees you back on Mars, 50 years after the last game, as Darius Mason, grandson of Alec Mason and Samanya, the heroes of the revolution from Red Faction: Guerilla, finding that the …
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Don’t Look Now Special Edition – The DVDfever Blu-ray Review
Don’t Look Now is a film I hadn’t seen prior to its debut on Blu-ray, but with Nicolas Roeg at the helm, it’s got to have some dodgy shenanigans in it and I don’t just …
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Incendies – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Incendies: You have read much about my view of the importance of endings during the past six months. Too many movies have finales which just seem away and leave a sense of dissatisfaction. Some, as …
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Brighton Rock (2010) on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Brighton Rock is a remake of the 1947 film, directed by John Boulting, changing the setting from the 1930s to 1964, during the mods and rockers era, where Kite, the leader of a gang, is …
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X-Men First Class – The DVDfever Cinema Review
X-Men First Class comes from what might be the most successful film studio in recent years but I have to admit that most of Marvel’s giant-sized productions have left me cold. Sure, I really like …
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Apocalypse Now Redux on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Apocalypse Now Redux: Bizarre and captivating are two words I can use to describe this film. Francis Ford Coppola‘s contribution to the Vietnam war films which has neither opening, nor official closing credits. In fact, …
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Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides 3D – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides: Recently, famous film critic Mark Kermode twittered that he was going to see this fourth installment of Pirates of the Caribbean and indicated he was going to keep …
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The Hangover Part II – The DVDfever Cinema review
The Hangover Part II: In 2009, The Hangover was one of my films of the year. From minute one, the jokes just kept coming and I laughed like never before or since at the cinema. …
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The Mechanic (2011) on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
The Mechanic: Now, are you familiar with the works of Oscar Wilde? Because Jason Statham isn’t. He plays Arthur Bishop, a cold, emotionless hitman who does his best to make the hits look like accidents, …
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