Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance With Somebody, or is this just “I Wanna Dance with Somebody”? It seems like the studio went with the latter originally, then felt that it had to include the singer’s …
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The Pale Blue Eye – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Christian Bale
The Pale Blue Eye is a new Netflix movie where, under the notification from Captain Hitchcock (Simon McBurney), Augustus Landor (Christian Bale) is tasked by Superintendent Thayer (Timothy Spall) to investigate the mysterious death, and …
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The Rig – The DVDfever Review – Prime Video – Martin Compston
The Rig is a new Prime Video series, and I don’t know much much water seems to ‘fart’ as gas escapes to the surface, but that happens in the opening of this six-parter. It’s a …
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The Light in the Hall – The DVDfever Review – Channel 4 – Joanna Scanlan
The Light in the Hall centres around Sharon (Joanna Scanlan – The Larkins, The Accident), whose daughter, Ela, was murdered almost 20 years ago at the age of 15, and the murderer, Joe (Iwan Rheon), …
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Stonehouse – The DVDfever Review – ITV drama – Keeley Hawes, Matthew Macfadyen
Stonehouse… John Stonehouse… a new ITV* drama about a Labour MP who faked his own death. Now, if it was every Tory MP, today, who jumped into the sea for real, no-one would mourn them. …
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Kaleidoscope – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Giancarlo Esposito, Paz Vega
Kaleidoscope is a one-off series where, for the first time that I can remember, the episodes are purposely NOT shown to you in a chronological order from start to finish. I sort-of had a similar …
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The Bishop’s Wife 75th Anniversary – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Cary Grant
The Bishop’s Wife is a film which could have any title, really, since it’s centred around three characters, but just picks one of them. Of the trio, I would’ve thought David Niven had the most …
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Marie Antoinette – The DVDfever Review – BBC drama – Emilia Schüle
Marie Antoinette is a new 8-part drama about the lady who may or may not have declared, “Let them eat cake!”, but certainly wasn’t needing to be planning a 40th birthday party any time soon… …
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Prince Andrew: The Musical – The DVDfever Review – Channel 4 – Kieran Hodgson
Prince Andrew: The Musical… Can’t say I’m too big a fan of most musicals*, but then no-one sane is a fan of Prince Andrew, a paedophile whose late mother, Queen Elizabeth II, used £12m of …
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Riptide – The DVDfever Review – Channel 5 drama – Jo Joyner, Peter O’Brien
Riptide isn’t just an ’80s Robert Palmer album, but a new 4-part Channel 5 drama over just as many nights. This nightly opus begins with Shane Ramsay from Neighours, sorry, Sean (Peter O’Brien), still surfing …
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