Julia… Julia Child… she became a famous chef, and when we first see her, she’s cooked a massive amount of food for a dinner party, making me wonder how she managed to keep it hot …
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Deadline – The DVDfever Review – Channel 5 drama – James D’Arcy
Deadline is another new four-part nightly drama for Channel 5. Journalist James Alden (James D’Arcy) is long past his best, but he has the exclusive chance to interview gold-digger and murder suspect Natalie Varga (Charlie …
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The Bubble – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Karen Gillan
The Bubble is a spoof actioner centred around a team of actors who start in one of the biggest… well, 23rd biggest, movies franchises ever made, Cliff Beasts. Given that Karen Gillan is in this, …
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Itorah on PC / Steam – The DVDfever Review / First Impressions
Itorah is a new 2.5D platformer, in which you can go back and forth along the environment, so there’s not one set path to progress down. As you pick up health along the way, on …
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Slow Horses – The DVDfever Review – Gary Oldman – Apple TV+
Slow Horses centres around an MI5 team who are a bit rubbish, making several mistakes in their career to date, so it makes you wonder if they’ve ever been sent for re-training, including the hot-headed …
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The Last Bus – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Robert Sheehan
The Last Bus begins at Monkhouse Industries, where some clumsy lab workers drop a bizarre orb, which subsequently zooms off by itself… Then over to Braelawn Academy where teacher Mr Short (Tom Basden) is playing …
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The Babadook on 4K Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review – Essie Davis
The Babadook is a film I’ve never got round to seeing before now, so what better way than with this new 4K Special Edition. It opens with a car accident, on the way to the …
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GTA V on PS5 – The DVDfever Review
GTA V on PS5 is the latest and final format in which the game is being released… or, so I said in relation to the PC version when that came out in 2015. Here we …
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Windfall – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Lily Collins, Jesse Plemons
Windfall is a film where all three leads are some of the producers, as well as one having co-written it. None of the characters have a proper name, so I’ll just refer to the names …
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Then Barbara Met Alan – The DVDfever Review – BBC – Ruth Madeley
Then Barbara Met Alan centres around two activists – comedian Barbara Lisicki (Ruth Madeley) and singer-songwriter Alan Holdsworth (Arthur Hughes), who meet up a gig where she’s doing stand-up, and he’s performing in a band, …
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