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Ex Machina is predominantly a three-hander and stars Domhnall Gleeson (Black Mirror: Be Right Back, Frank, About Time) as Caleb, picked at random in a lottery at work to go and stay with the boss, …
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Birdman: or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Birdman, or to give it its full title, “Birdman: or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)“, stars Michael Keaton as has-been actor Riggan Thompson, whose glory days are behind him, hence the rather self-referential aspect to …
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Whiplash – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Whiplash stars the relatively unknown (to me, at least) Miles Teller as Andrew, a student who loves drumming. Schaffer University music bod Terrence Fletcher (JK Simmons) also loves his drumming, as he spots the lad’s …
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Foxcatcher – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Foxcatcher begins with Mark Schultz (Channing Tatum, who usually restricts himself to goofball comedies), a socially-awkward character, telling a group of schoolchildren about how he takes part in wrestling because it enabled him to win …
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The Theory of Everything – The DVDfever cinema review
The Theory of Everything stars Birdsong‘s Eddie Redmayne as Professor Steven Hawking, who was also played, brilliantly, in the 2004 BBC film Hawking, by Benedict Cumberbatch. Both are going head-to-head in the 2015 Awards season, …
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Dying of the Light – The DVDfever cinema review
Dying of the Light begins with CIA agent Evan Lake (Nicolas Cage) being beaten up and tortured by a terrorist called Muhammad Banir (Alexander Karim) while he’d rather the shoe was on the other foot… …
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The Interview – The DVDfever cinema review
The Interview is a film that needs no introduction, really, because it’s led the news headlines on many occasions recently, but just in case you’ve been hiding under a rock throughout December, it centres around …
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The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies in 3D IMAX – The DVDfever cinema review
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies takes us back into J.R.R. Tolkein‘s Middle Earth for the final time. The poster hypes this entry as being “The Definining Chapter” – it’s not, it’s just …
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The London Korean Film Festival 2014 – The DVDfever Review
The London Korean Film Festival 2014 – Who’d have thought it! Just nine years ago, the inaugural event showed just 11 films. Fast forward to 2014 and the total is 55. And the variety of …
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The London Film Festival 2014 Part 3: The Documentary Is Alive And Well…
The London Film Festival 2014‘s first part brought you English-language movies, and in Part 2 we looked at features from the rest of the world. Traditionally we like to hand out our virtual LFF awards …
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