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His House centres around Bol Majur (Sope Dirisu – Black Mirror: Nosedive) and his wife, Rial (Wunmi Mosaku – Temple), who come to the UK after escaping South Sudan in a boat which collapses in …
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Morning Live – The DVDfever Review – Kym Marsh, Gethin Jones
Morning Live looks like the kind of show which is intended to be a rival to This Morning on ITV, and Jeremy Vine on Channel 5. However, this is a mercifully short 45 minutes, so …
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The Undoing – The DVDfever Review – Hugh Grant, Nicole Kidman – HBO / Sky Atlantic
The Undoing is a new limited series (i.e. one series only) on both HBO and Sky Atlantic with a very posh well-to-do couple for whom things are about to go South. Jonathan Fraser (Hugh Grant …
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Barbarians – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Jeanne Goursaud
Barbarians begins in the Teutoburg Forest, in the year 9AD in what could be a warring battle between three Roman legions and the Germanic tribes whom they refer to as Barbarians, even though it’s set …
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Over The Moon – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Sandra Oh
Over The Moon teaches us early on that scientists can tell us a lot about space except the space dog, who takes a bite out of the moon, and when it’s a full moon, that …
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The Queen’s Gambit – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Anya Taylor-Joy
The Queen’s Gambit centres around child chess prodigy Beth and, yes, the main star of this is Anya Taylor-Joy (Split), but in the first episode, she appears only at the start in a brief scene …
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The Sister – The DVDfever Review – Russell Tovey – ITV drama
The Sister opens in the present day when we see Nathan (Russell Tovey – Years And Years) weighing up the option of swigging back a load of pills with some booze, before we head back …
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The Witches – The DVDfever Review – Anne Hathaway, Octavia Spencer
The Witches is a new take on the Roald Dahl story, starring Anne Hathaway (Interstellar), and comes from director Robert Zemeckis (Allied, The Walk 3D, Back To The Future). We learn, early on, how witches …
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Honest Thief – The DVDfever Review – Liam Neeson
Honest Thief sees Liam Neeson (The Commuter) kicking bottom, once again, in an action role, even at his tender age of 68. He plays Tom, a former bank robber but is using his particular set …
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Roadkill – The DVDfever Review – Hugh Laurie – BBC drama
Roadkill is a showcase for Hugh Laurie as long-in-the-tooth Tory (albeit, not stated as such) MP Peter Laurence, who states he comes from the same background as the people he represents, is also one of …
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