Second Coming begins with the dilemma that Jax (Nadine Marshall) is eight weeks into her second pregnancy, but hasn’t had intimate relations with husband Mark (Idris Elba) for ages. Since she hasn’t had an affair …
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Tomorrowland: A World Beyond – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Tomorrowland: A World Beyond is a film which looked intriguing from the trailer and clips I’d seen, but was ultimately flawed in its execution, not least because you felt like you’d seen the best of …
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San Andreas – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Dwayne Johnson
San Andreas stars Dwayne Johnson (aka The Rock) as Rainier Wolfcastle, aka Ray. He’s a maverick helicopter rescue pilot, rescuing helicopters in danger all around the area where they have that San Andreas fault thing. …
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Mad Max: Fury Road – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Mad Max: Fury Road has a very complex plot… well, actually, it has no discernable plot. Then again, I can’t remember if the original three films did, either, where the part of ‘Mad’ Max Rockatansky …
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Spooks: The Greater Good – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Spooks: The Greater Good begins with a number of the MI5 team stuck in a typical London traffic jam, transporting evil terrorist Qasim (Elyes Gabel). Quite why they didn’t wait until rush hour was over …
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Avengers: Age Of Ultron – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Avengers: Age Of Ultron begins with know-it-all philanthropist Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr) putting into place a peacekeeping program. Why? Because he has far too much time on his hands, and with his ‘Iron Legion’, …
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The Gunman – The DVDfever Cinema Review
The Gunman stars Sean Penn in the lead role as action man Jim Terrier. He’s one of a number of men, involved in an operation far away, where they all did very bad things that …
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Ex Machina – The DVDfever Cinema Review
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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