The Underground Railroad is an adaption of a 2016 novel which comes across as a bit of a mixed bag. It starts off rather arthouse-style with people walking backwards while Cora’s mother gives birth to …
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Flowing Lights on PC / Steam – The DVDfever Review / First Impressions
Flowing Lights is a new game which feels rather like a shoot-em-up version of an old Xbox 360 game called Rez, giving you a hint of a challenge whilst looking damn cool. Check out my …
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Orbital Bullet on PC / Steam – The DVDfever Review / First Impressions
Orbital Bullet is a circular shoot-em-up in that the old ZX Spectrum / Commodore 64 ’80s game Nebulus was a circular jumper. Shoot everything with the weapons you begin with, collect or buy more, shoot …
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Domina – The DVDfever Review – Nadia Parkes – ‘Game of Romes’
Domina tells the story of Livia Drusilla (starting as Nadia Parkes, before moving on to Kasia Smutniak), who in an opening voiceover tells us she’s killed many people, and that the first rule of power …
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Danny Boy – The DVDfever Review – Anthony Boyle, Toby Jones
Danny Boy… Operation Danny Boy… This is a feature-length drama based on a real-life situation about a platoon of British soldiers who were ambushed in Southern Iraq, and the 1st Battalion, Princess of Wales’ Royal …
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Wuthering Heist – Inside No.9 Series 6 Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review
Wuthering Heist is the first episode of Inside No.9 Series 6, and centres aroudnd a planned £12m robbery of rough-cut diamonds, hence the ‘heist’ part. Gemma Whelan, as Columbina, breaks the fourth wall, describing the …
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Three Families – The DVDfever Review – BBC drama – Theresa Ryan
Three Families comes from the same team as 2017’s Three Girls, and centres around the sensitive topic of abortion, the Abortion Act 1967 subsequently permitting this within the UK… except for Northern Ireland. In my …
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Oxygen – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Mélanie Laurent
Oxygen has a premise which feels a bit similar to Ryan Reynolds’ 2010 movie Buried, where his character was trapped in a particular situation and needs to be rescued quickly, otherwise it could prove fatal, …
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Majority Bowfell Compact 2.1 Bluetooth Soundbar Review – Worth Buying in 2021?
Majority Bowfell Compact 2.1 Bluetooth Soundbar Review: Is it worth buying in 2021? Majority have released the Bowfell Compact 2.1 Bluetooth Soundbar, for use with your TV for Optical, Wireless and Wired Options, but if …
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Jupiter’s Legacy – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Josh Duhamel, Leslie Bibb
Jupiter’s Legacy is based on a 2013 comic book which I hadn’t heard of until now, and centres around the world’s first superheroes, whilst jumping back and forth in time, slightly, to tell its story. …
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