Big Mood is a new vehicle for Derry Girls‘ Nicola Coughlan (Barbie) as Maggie, where her opening gambit is to go back to her old school that’s “like Grange Hill, but somehow less glamourous” to …
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Alice And Jack – The DVDfever Review – Channel 4 – Andrea Riseborough, Domhnall Gleeson
Alice and Jack tells of a relationship which starts strong between two great actors in Andrea Riseborough (Crocodile: Black Mirror) and Domhnall Gleeson (Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise Of Skywalker). When we first meet …
Continue readingTruelove – The DVDfever Review – Channel 4 – Lindsay Duncan, Clarke Peters
Truelove deals with the very dark subject of death, and when knowing you have a terminal illness and – understandably – want to choose your own time to shuffle off your mortal coil, it should …
Continue readingThe Couple Next Door – The DVDfever Review – Channel 4 – Eleanor Tomlinson, Sam Heughan
The Couple Next Door is a new Channel 4 thriller which looks, from the trailer, like everyone’s up to no good. Evie (Eleanor Tomlinson – The Outlaws) and Peter (Alfred Enoch) move in to what …
Continue readingBanged Up – The DVDfever Review – Channel 4 – Sid Owen, Johnny Mercer
Banged Up takes place in HMP Shrewsbury, which has been shut down for ten years and is about to get an influx of newcomers – a mix of celebs and real prisoners, one even teaching …
Continue readingPartygate – The DVDfever Review – Channel 4 – Georgie Henley
Partygate is something that shouldn’t have to exist, as a drama. However, it does, because we currently have the most corrupt bunch of bastards in power than I’ve ever seen in my lifetime. When the …
Continue readingScrew Series 2 – The DVDfever Review – Channel 4 – Nina Sosanya
Screw Series 2… should’ve been called Screw 2, for more impact, but anyway. Following the first series, warden Leigh Henry (Nina Sosanya – Brian And Charles) now has a proper abode, of sorts… at least …
Continue readingAlone – The DVDfever Review – Channel 4 reality gameshow
Alone starts with a naked man walking through the forest… so, make sure you’ve finished your dinner by the time this starts. We learn he’s on the edge of the arctic circle, although I don’t …
Continue readingPopmaster TV – The DVDfever Review – More 4 gameshow – Ken Bruce
Popmaster TV is the televisual equivalent of Ken Bruce‘s radio quiz show Popmaster, which he recently took from Radio 2 to Greatest Hits Radio, and I have to admit that bar the occasional clip, I’ve …
Continue readingThe Change – The DVDfever Review – Channel 4 – Bridget Christie
The Change sees central character Linda (Bridget Christie) going through the menopause. She’s feeling the trappings of age as she turns 50, such as how everything she does with her kids seems to annoy them, …
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