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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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1864 on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
1864 is another triumph for Nordic Noir, for television as a whole, and for viewers who owe it to themselves to watch this drama. If there’s one thing I like about a TV series, it’s …
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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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Foxcatcher on Blu-ray – The DVDfever 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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A Most Violent Year on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
A Most Violent Year stars Inside Llewyn Davis‘ Oscar Isaac as Abel Morales, who is a good man, in principle, running a business to supply oil. He’s buying a new facility which will allow him …
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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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The Long Good Friday Special Edition on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
The Long Good Friday is a film which I didn’t really ‘get’ when I was younger. i would’ve been in my teens when I first saw it. The late, great Bob Hoskins plays Harold Shand, …
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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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Satyricon (aka Fellini Satyricon) on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Satyricon, by Federico Fellini, is one of the most bizarre cinematic experiences ever committed to celluloid, in my view. I first saw it at Keele Film Society back in the early 1990s. The brochure described …
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