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Rise And Fall is a new Channel 4 gameshow, presented by Radio 1’s Greg James, which has a premise which sounds a bit like the recent The Traitors, on BBC1. Once again, a bunch of …
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Author: Dom Robinson
Reviewer of movies, videogames and music since 1994. Aortic valve operation survivor from the same year. Running DVDfever.co.uk since 2000. Nobel Peace Prize winner 2021.
Luther: The Fallen Sun – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Idris Elba, Andy Serkis
Luther: The Fallen Sun shows that the long-running detective drama finally comes to the big screen… albeit on the small screen. It did get OTT later in the series, though, and rather lacking in the …
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Challenge Anneka – The DVDfever Review – Channel 5 – Anneka Rice
Challenge Anneka is back, and at first, I thought: it has the same music, initially, but then tries to change it, and surely they should’ve stuck to the original? Or was it something amiss with …
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Champions – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Woody Harrelson, Kaitlin Olson
Champions centres around a womanising idiot Marcus Marokovich (Woody Harrelson – Kate), although since Mr Harrelson is almost 62, perhaps he’s a bit old for such roles? Either way, as is typical of lazy Hollywood, …
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Swarm – The DVDfever Review – Amazon Prime Video – Dominique Fishback, Donald Glover
Swarm begins with the text: “This is not a work of fiction. Any similarity to real people and events is intentional.” I figured this was for comedic value – given that it is co-created by …
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Class Of 07 – The DVDfever Review – Amazon Prime Video – Emily Browning, Caitlin Stasey
Class Of 07 is about a high school reunion, as you’d expect, but everyone has their different backgrounds as to what they’ve been up to, and for Zoe (Emily Browning), she inadvertently showed herself up …
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65 – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Adam Driver, Ariana Greenblatt
65 isn’t about the retirement age for pensioners, but the approximate number of mega-annums since the dinosaurs first ruled the Earth, before an asteroid allegedly struck the planet and wiped them out, but those records …
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Extrapolations – The DVDfever Review – Apple TV+ – Meryl Streep, Kit Harington
Extrapolations shows it’s Apple TV+’s turn to throw its hat into the “Let’s scare everyone about so-called man-made global warning”, which comes across like Greta Thunberg on acid. Starting in 2037 (and going up to …
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The Magician’s Elephant – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Noah Jupe, Mandy Patinkin
The Magician’s Elephant is a new Netflix animation, where people in the town of Baltese have suddenly just stopped believing in magic, causing the town to go from being vibrant and colourful, to change and …
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A Town Called Malice – The DVDfever Review – Sky Showcase – Jason Flemyng
A Town Called Malice takes us back to the ’80s – the best ever decade – where Gene Lord (Jack Rowan – Adulting: On The Edge) and Cindy Carter (Tahirah Sharif – The Tower) chatting …
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