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Tale Of Tales is a film from Matteo Garrone, who co-wrote the screenplay, based on 17th century Italian poet Giambattista Basile‘s The Pentamerone, which translates as “The Tale of Tales, or Entertainment for Little Ones”), …
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The Imitation Game on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
The Imitation Game begins in 1951 with Detective Nock (The Casual Vacancy‘s Rory Kinnear) and Sgt Staehl (Ideal‘s Tom Goodman-Hill) turn up to the reported break-in at Alan Turing’s house, where he’s reluctant to talk …
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The OSCARS 2015 took place last night and the winners are as follows: Best Picture: Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) Best Director: Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) – Alejandro G. Iñárritu …
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The BAFTA 2015 Awards took place tonight. The nominations are here, and the winners are as follows: Best Film Boyhood – Richard Linklater, Cathleen Sutherland Outstanding British Film The Theory Of Everything – James Marsh, …
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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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Godzilla – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Godzilla is the monster that just won’t stay dead, or at the very least, attempt to be killed. I enjoyed Roland Emmerich’s 1998 take on the character, as an enjoyable piece of hokum, and while …
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The Grand Budapest Hotel – The DVDfever Cinema Review
The Grand Budapest Hotel centers around an elderly Mr. Moustafa (F. Murray Abraham), in 1985,recounting tales about his life at the hotel to a young writer (Jude Law), starting from the moment he started as …
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The Monuments Men – The DVDfever cinema review
The Monuments Men is a film that can be summed up in one sentence, and really should be meant to play out equally succinctly but, unfortunately, is allowed by its director and lead actor, George …
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Argo – The DVDfever Review
Argo begins with a bit of a history lesson, telling us how Mohammad Reza Shah ruled Iran from 1953 until 1979, at which point Khomeini took over after years of opulence and excess from Shah, …
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Zero Dark Thirty – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Zero Dark Thirty begins in 2003 with the torture, ahem, discussion, with captured terrorist, Ammar (Reda Kateb), a man who was caught because his name is linked to a $5,000 Western Union transfer to a …
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