Holding centres around cop Sgt PJ Collins (Conleth Hill), who’s fed up of no real crimes taking place, such as when Mrs Doyle… sorry, Eileen O’Driscoll (Pauline McLynn), is annoyed that the house opposite her …
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Queens of Mystery – The DVDfever Review – Channel 5 drama – Olivia Vinall
Queens of Mystery centres around Matilda “Mattie” Stone (Olivia Vinall), whose mother, Eleanor, disappeared when she was 3 years old, leaving her to stay with a succession of aunts elsewhere, including one who runs a …
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The Adam Project – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Ryan Reynolds
The Adam Project begins in 2050, where we’re told onscreen, “Time travel exists. You just don’t know it yet”. Then, in the present day, one night, as young Adam Reed (Walker Scobell) sees his mum …
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The Batman – The DVDfever Review – Robert Pattinson
The Batman is yet another reboot for one of DC Comics’ major characters, and when director Matt Reeves took it on, I did wonder whether it was necessary, since it’s only 10 years since Christopher …
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Our House – The DVDfever Review – ITV drama – Tuppence Middleton
Our House is not a Madness song reference, but Fi Lawson (Tuppence Middleton – The Commuter: Philip K Dick’s Electric Dreams, Mank) gets home from a work trip away and much to her surprise, someone …
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The Witchfinder – The DVDfever Review – BBC – Tim Key, Daisy May Cooper
The Witchfinder is one of those set-in-the-past sitcoms where, in this case, it’s 17th Century life with the added aspect of modern-day language and structure, so when we first meet Daisy May Cooper‘s character, Thomasine …
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Pieces Of Her – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Toni Collette
Pieces of Her centres around the fractured relationship between Andy Oliver (Bella Heathcote), a young woman turning 30, who works in a 911 phone line in the small town of Belle Isle, and she moved …
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The Holiday – The DVDfever Review – Channel 5 drama – Jill Halfpenny
The Holiday sees family strife between four households on what’s meant to be a dream luxury holiday. But then, it wouldn’t be a four-part nightly drama if someone didn’t sleep with someone else, or in …
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The Ipcress File – The DVDfever Review – ITV drama – Tom Hollander, Joe Cole
The Ipcress File is a new six-part ITV drama based on the Len Deighton novel, which became a hit 1965 movie starring the one and only Michael Caine as counter espionage agent Harry Palmer, here …
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The Cuphead Show! – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Based on the Cuphead videogame
The Cuphead Show! is a series of 12-minute cartoons based on ’50s-style cartoon characters from the videogame Cuphead… which I’ve never actually played. I know, I should’ve done. It does look good, but anyway… with …
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