Coma starts with Simon Henderson (Jason Watkins – Wicked Little Letters) seeing an old man being kicked to the ground by a bunch of yobs, and that’s actually quite timely, given how I saw the …
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Wicked Little Letters – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Jessie Buckley, Olivia Colman
Wicked Little Letters is exactly what most of the townsfolk of Littlehampton are receiving, in 1920, full of profanity I can’t repeat here, and it all appears to be coming from the pen of uncouth …
Continue readingThe Catch – The DVDfever Review – Channel 5 drama – Jason Watkins
The Catch begins with Ed (Jason Watkins – The Man Who Killed Don Quixote) steering his fishing boat on the ocean wave, looking anxious, making his way to a dinghy which is overturned. But where …
Continue readingAround The World In 80 Days – The DVDfever Review – David Tennant – BBC drama
Around the World in 80 Days stars David Tennant as world explorer-to-be Phileas Fogg, and he’s offered a wager of £20,000, which is half his fortune, and the cash equivalent today being almost £2m. In …
Continue readingThe Trick – The DVDfever Review – Jason Watkins – BBC Drama
The Trick centres around Phil Jones (Jason Watkins – Line of Duty), who was the keynote speaker at COP15, aka the Climate Change Conference 2009, in London. It deals with the subject of “Climategate”, in …
Continue readingThe Man Who Killed Don Quixote on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review – Terry Gilliam
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote is the film which director Terry Gilliam has been spending almost half his life trying to bring to the screen, as it’s been almost 30 years in the making. …
Continue readingDes – The DVDfever Review – David Tennant Dennis Nilsen drama
Des aka Dennis Nilsen (David Tennant – Staged, Deadwater Fell) – since the titular moniker is what he wants his friends to call him, is not a nice man. This review will keep anything potentially …
Continue readingHitmen – The DVDfever Review – Mel Giedroyc, Sue Perkins
Hitmen is the first scripted sitcom for evergreen pairing Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins, aka Mel and Sue, although not for Sue. I remember them first on Channel 4’s daytime show Light Lunch – and …
Continue readingMcDonald & Dodds – The DVDfever Review – Jason Watkins
McDonald & Dodds is the latest cop series for ITV with another mismatched pairing, this time with London hotshot DCI Lauren McDonald (Tala Gouveia) arriving to put a rocket over the comparatively sleepy policing procedures …
Continue readingThe Man Who Killed Don Quixote – Trailer 1 – Terry Gilliam
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote is the film which writer/director Terry Gilliam (Time Bandits) has been trying to make for 30 years, originally starring Johnny Depp in the role of Toby, who has now …
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