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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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Jimi: All Is By My Side on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Jimi: All Is By My Side looks at the life of Jimi Hendrix, a unique performer who died at the age of 27 but whom is one of a number of artists, including The Doors …
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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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Stations of the Cross on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Stations of the Cross begins with Maria (Lea van Acken) and her Sunday School class being taught the rights and wrongs of the spiritual world by a vicar who is lecturing them on the week …
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The Rover on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
The Rover is set in Australia, ten years after the world’s economic collapse, and has an environment that looks like a post-apocalyptic world in the near future. If you want to get ahead, you don’t …
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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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God’s Pocket on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
God’s Pocket is a grim town and there’s, apparently, things you only understand about it if you were brought up there, according to local hack Richard Shellburn (Richard Jenkins). The fact that meat van driver …
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Left Behind on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Left Behind is what happened to this film. As Dying of the Light dies on its arse at the box office, this straight-to-DVD Nicolas Cage flick fares no better. With an obscenely long intro where …
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