Floodlights centres around Andrew Woodward (Gerard Kearns, as an adult, but played by Max Fletcher in his younger years) who, as a young boy, was assaulted many times by football coach Barry Bennell (Jonas Armstrong), …
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Night Sky – The DVDfever Review – Amazon Prime Video – Sissy Spacek, JK Simmons
Night Sky has a bit of a bizarre premise which I didn’t actually look into before watching the opener, so it made for interesting viewing. Kicking off with a brief scene where, as teenagers, Irene …
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Conversations with Friends – The DVDfever Review – BBC – Sasha Lane, Sally Rooney
Conversations With Friends is a new series which, like Normal People, is spawned from a novel by Sally Rooney. I wasn’t a fan of the adaptation of her previous work, but can this one swing …
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Nine Lives Kat – Inside No.9 Series 7 Episode 3 – The DVDfever Review
Nine Lives Kat is the third episode of Inside No.9 Series 7. The episode centres around cop Katrina (Sophie Okonedo) who, with no milk for her Coco Pops, resorts to putting vodka on them instead. …
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The Lincoln Lawyer – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Manuel Garcia-Rulfo
The Lincoln Lawyer is a new Netflix series based on the writings of Michael Connelly, but I remember that in 2011, this made for a great movie with Matthew McConaughey. The titular solicitor is Mickey …
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The Staircase – The DVDfever Review – Sky Atlantic – Colin Firth
The Staircase is a new drama based on the real life death of Kathleen Peterson (Toni Collette – Pieces Of Her), who, in December 2001, was found at death’s door at the bottom of the …
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Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness IMAX 3D – The DVDfever Review – Benedict Cumberbatch
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is the second of ol’ BenCum’s outings in his own movie – even though he seems to have turned up in countless others – but I’ll start with …
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The Pentaverate – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Mike Myers
The Pentaverate is a new Netflix comedy where Mike Myers plays Ken, a reporter who’s an old letch, as well as all five members of a secret organisation, including Rupert Murdoch-like Bruce Baldwin, and Misha, …
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Clark – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Bill Skarsgård
Clark begins in 1947, in Trollhättan, Sweden, where our lead anti-hero is born, even reminiscing about being in the womb and not wanting to be locked up, citing his birth as “my first escape“. As …
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Richard Hammond’s Crazy Contraptions – The DVDfever Review – Channel 4
Richard Hammond’s Crazy Contraptions is a new show for Channel 4 which has a look of the ’80s BBC2 show, The Great Egg Race, which I loved as a kid. There are scores of chores …
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