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Lingo is a new ITV quiz show which premieres on New Year’s Day, and then moves to the Monday 3pm slot from the week after, displacing the current Tenable repeats. Talking of which, after seeing …
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The Great – The DVDfever Review – Elle Fanning, Nicholas Hoult
The Great… what? The Great Soprendo? No, it’s Catherine The Great, but they couldn’t call it that because of the 2019 drama with Helen Mirren. Beginning in 1761 and billed as “an occasionally true story”, …
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Death To 2020 – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Samuel L Jackson
Death To 2020 is less a new Black Mirror-style special for Netflix, and more akin to a Screenwipe special, but on a much larger budget than you’d get from the BBC. As such, those playing …
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Black Narcissus – The DVDfever Review – Gemma Arterton – BBC drama
Black Narcissus is a new take on the 1947 movie, and novel by Rumer Godden and broadcasts over three nights on BBC1 this Christmas. I’ve never seen that film, nor read the book, but reading …
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We Can Be Heroes – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Pedro Pascal, Priyanka Chopra
We Can Be Heroes follows on from 2005’s writer/director Robert Rodriguez‘s The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl 3D, which I haven’t seen, but should because I like 3D films. I get the impression that whereas …
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FIFA 21 on PS5 (free upgrade from PS4) – The DVDfever Review
FIFA 21 is out now, and this time round, I didn’t rush into getting it at first – mainly because I was deeply involved with a number of single-player games and didn’t have the time. …
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Tenet on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review – John David Washington, Robert Pattinson
Tenet is a film definitely been worth a second viewing, since before seeing it the first time, I didn’t quite get what was going on, and then after seeing it, I was still trying to …
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The Witches on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review – Anne Hathaway, Octavia Spencer
The Witches comes to Blu-ray and DVD following its streaming debut on HBO Max, not appearing in cinemas because this year has gone a bit ‘2020’. It’s a new take on the Roald Dahl story, …
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Blankety Blank 2020 Christmas Special – The DVDfever Review – Bradley Walsh
Blankety Blank 2020 Christmas Special revives the gameshow which, prior to this, was only ever good in its original form with Terry Wogan, from 1979-1983, before Les Dawson took over the year after, somehow making …
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The Midnight Sky – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – George Clooney, Felicity Jones
The Midnight Sky begins observing Augustine (George Clooney – Return of the Killer Tomatoes… yes, seriously!), at the Barbeau Observatory in The Arctic Circle, where we see him sat down, eating lunch on his own …
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