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The Queen’s Gambit centres around child chess prodigy Beth and, yes, the main star of this is Anya Taylor-Joy (Split), but in the first episode, she appears only at the start in a brief scene …
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The Sister – The DVDfever Review – Russell Tovey – ITV drama
The Sister opens in the present day when we see Nathan (Russell Tovey – Years And Years) weighing up the option of swigging back a load of pills with some booze, before we head back …
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The Witches – The DVDfever Review – Anne Hathaway, Octavia Spencer
The Witches is a new take on the Roald Dahl story, starring Anne Hathaway (Interstellar), and comes from director Robert Zemeckis (Allied, The Walk 3D, Back To The Future). We learn, early on, how witches …
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Honest Thief – The DVDfever Review – Liam Neeson
Honest Thief sees Liam Neeson (The Commuter) kicking bottom, once again, in an action role, even at his tender age of 68. He plays Tom, a former bank robber but is using his particular set …
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Roadkill – The DVDfever Review – Hugh Laurie – BBC drama
Roadkill is a showcase for Hugh Laurie as long-in-the-tooth Tory (albeit, not stated as such) MP Peter Laurence, who states he comes from the same background as the people he represents, is also one of …
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Someone Has To Die – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Spanish drama
Someone Has to Die has had a lot of expectation put upon it, but when it comes to the first episode, there’s nothing else to impart than what’s in the back description, whereas Gabino comes …
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Out Of Her Mind – The DVDfever Review – Sara Pascoe
Out Of Her Mind is another of those sitcoms ‘loosely based’ on the writer/creator’s own life, this time being comedian Sara Pascoe – unsurprisingly, as ‘Sara’ – talking directly to the camera, the main basis …
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Rebecca – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Lily James, Armie Hammer
Rebecca is a new version of the 1940s Hitchcock movie (okay, technically, the 1938 Daphne du Maurier novel), and I wouldn’t have thought of Ben Wheatley as someone making a remake of such a film, …
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Blackpink: Light Up The Sky – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Blackpink
Blackpink: Light Up The Sky: I’m not too au fait with K-pop music, but I’ve heard of Blackpink, one of many manufactured pop groups in South Korea, but also one of the most successful. After …
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The Trial of the Chicago 7 – The DVDfever Review – Eddie Redmayne
The Trial of the Chicago 7 is based on the same situation which also spawned the 1987 TV movie, Conspiracy: The Trial of the Chicago 8… so, who’s the 8th individual? I’ll get to that. …
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