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Don’t think and drive FAST & FURIOUS 7

Release Date: 19/08/15 Format:

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Back to the Starting Line

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Inside the Fight See You Again Music Video Deleted Scenes Snatch and Grab Flying Cars The Cars of Furious Race Wars Making of The Fast Ride Tower Jumps

Who would have thunk that the seventh film in a franchise could be both the most enjoyable installment and the most successful ($1.5 billion in global box office bucks)? That’s Fast & Furious 7 , an action juggernaut that’s so proudly ridiculous and relentless, you can’t help but have a good time. This time round Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) and his “family”

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Limited Edition 2-disc Blu-Ray with 30 mins of Extra Features - A Home In Ruins - From Pre-Viz to Final - Shooting In Abu Dhabi - Jeff Imada: Up Close and Personal

are dropped from an aircraft, aimed at a helicopter, and sent flying through Abu Dhabi skyscrapers – and the heroes even more indestructible. The F&F franchise understands exactly what its fans want, and number seven gives them more than they need; plus, the touching tribute to late star Paul Walker that closes the film will make grown men weep.

(Paul Walker, Tyrese Gibson, Ludacris and Michelle Rodriguez) are recruited by a government agent (hello Kurt Russell) to rescue an abducted hacker ( GoT ’s Nathalie Emmanuel); Jason Statham is also on board, as well as the vengeful brother of F&F 6 ’s British bad guy. The action set pieces are gleefully absurd – cars

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Need for Speed

The Divergent Series diverges INSURGENT

Release Date: 12/08/15 Format:

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Commentary with producers Doug Wick and Lucy Fisher From Divergent to Insurgent Sneak Peek In-theatre promotional making-of HBO First Look Image Gallery Theatrical Trailers #1 to #5 Insurgent Unlocked The Others: Cast & Characters The Train Fight Unlocked The Peter Hayes Story Diverging: Adapting Insurgent to the Screen JB HI-FI EXCLUSIVE Limited Edition 2-disc Blu-Ray with 40 mins of Extra Features - Insurgent in Style - Simulations: The Next Level - Veronica Roth: Tell All BD ONLY

In the competitive arena of Young Adult adaptations, some series live to fight another day, while others die after a single installment. Veronica Roth’s Divergent Series has been tough enough to spawn a four-film franchise, of which Insurgent is the second. Set in a post-apocalypse Chicago, society has been divided into

The pair find allies in the Factionless, led by Four’s mother (Naomi Watts), and there’s also the issue of a mysterious box containing a message from the society’s founders which can only be opened by a pure Divergent, making Tris’s capture a priority. Insurgent expands the series’ mythology, delving deeper into its class system and characters, and advances the narrative in new and unexpected directions – which is what any good sequel should do.

five factions according to human virtues. But if you possess free will and independent thought – like Tris (Shailene Woodley) and Four (Theo James) – you’re deemed ‘Divergent’ and a threat to the status quo. With the factions on the brink of civil war at the end of Divergent , Insurgent picks up with Tris and Four on the run from power-mad Erudite leader Jeanine (Kate Winslet), who has vowed to eliminate the Divergents.

The Hunger Games FURTHER VIEWING

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