Anne centres around Anne Williams, played here by Maxine Peake, whose son, Kevin, died in the harrowing disaster at Hillsborough Stadium, Sheffield, on April 15th 1989, the death toll for which now stands at 97, …
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The Lost Daughter – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Olivia Colman
The Lost Daughter centres around Leda (Olivia Colman – The Father), who we’re shown collapsing on a beach in Greece before events go back to the start of her holiday, there, taking accommation at a …
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Eve Of The Daleks – Doctor Who 2022 New Year Special – The DVDfever Review
Eve Of The Daleks makes me ask: Is this the first new Doctor Who episode from Chris Chibnall which will actually make sense? In the end… no, he was just trying to tick as many …
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The Tourist – The DVDfever Review – BBC drama – Jamie Dornan
The Tourist begins with a traffic collision with a truck for an as-yet-unnamed man, played by Jamie Dornan, who then wakes up in a hospital bed, but has no idea who he is, or that …
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BFI London Film Festival 2021 Part 1 by Helen M Jerome – The DVDfever Review
BFI London Film Festival 2021 Part 1: Back to life. Back to normality. Well, almost. After a 90 per cent online festival in 2020, in 2021 the BFI opted to make it almost totally in-person, …
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Stay Close – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Cush Jumbo, James Nesbitt
Stay Close comes from Harlan Coben, who also brought us 2020’s The Stranger, an engaging, but occasionally daft, drama. However, I loved that it was set in my home town of Stockport. The basic premise …
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The Silent Sea – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Bae Doona
The Silent Sea begins with a tragedy, of a spaceship having had some sort of an accident while on a mission to the Moon, leaving everyone upside down and the engines also down. Then we …
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Around The World In 80 Days – The DVDfever Review – David Tennant – BBC drama
Around the World in 80 Days stars David Tennant as world explorer-to-be Phileas Fogg, and he’s offered a wager of £20,000, which is half his fortune, and the cash equivalent today being almost £2m. In …
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The Mezzotint: A Ghost Story for Christmas – The DVDfever Review – Rory Kinnear
The Mezzotint: A Ghost Story for Christmas is set almost 100 years ago in 1922, and begins with museum creator Edward Williams (Rory Kinnear – Ridley Road) playing golf before chancing across a rather odd …
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A Very British Scandal – The DVDfever Review – Claire Foy, Paul Bettany
A Very British Scandal made me think I’d seen this title before, but that was actually A Very English Scandal, the 2018 Jeremy Thorpe drama with Hugh Grant and Ben Whishaw. This is technically ‘series …
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