Prodigal Son is so-called because it the lead character, Malcolm Bright (Tom Payne – The Physician), is the son of jailed mass-murderer Dr. Martin Whitly (Michael Sheen – Staged), a man known as ‘The Surgeon’, …
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A Suitable Boy – The DVDfever Review – Vikram Seth, Tabu
A Suitable Boy is set in Bramhpur, 1951, four years after the time when India became independent and was partitioned into two countries. We’re reminded early on that India was free, but the land and …
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Superliminal on PC – The DVDfever Review – Portal-style puzzle game
Superliminal is a bizarre, and clever puzzle game which is very similar to Portal in that these puzzles require some lateral thinking… and even then, I was sometimes completely bamboozled. For example, one room in …
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Road Trippin’ – Let’s Play and First Impressions – ZX Spectrum
Road Trippin’ is a new ZX Spectrum game from John Davies at JoeSoft, and here’s a Let’s Play & First Impressions video! And it features Stockport! There’s 20 levels in all, 8 of which are …
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Cursed – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Katherine Langford
Cursed comes before the King Arthur legend, with Nimue (Katherine Langford – Knives Out) wielding the sword… First, she’s spooked by birds circling in the sky, then a deer tells her that death is not …
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The Shrine – Talking Heads Series 1 Episode 12 – The DVDfever Review – Monica Dolan
The Shrine is the twelfth, and final, of 12 episodes using the original Alan Bennett scripts but with new actors, except that this and An Ordinary Woman were brand new scripts. It centres around Lorna …
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Greyhound – The DVDfever Review – Tom Hanks – Apple TV+
Greyhound is the ship leading the way for a convoy of Allied ships on their way to the Liverpool, known as Convoy HX-25, carrying troops and supplies to assist in the war effort in February …
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Miss Fozzard Finds Her Feet – Talking Heads Series 1 Episode 11 – The DVDfever Review – Maxine Peake
Miss Fozzard Finds Her Feet is the eleventh, and penultimate, of 12 episodes using the original Alan Bennett scripts but with new actors. Miss Fozzard (Maxine Peake) has a great chiropodist, Mr Suddaby, but unfortunately, …
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The Secrets She Keeps – The DVDfever Review – Laura Carmichael
The Secrets She Keeps begins with Meghan Shaughnessy (Jessica De Gouw) having a baby without it being planned, aka an ‘oops baby’. Like any vlogger, she sometimes gets adverse comments on ger vlogs, but today, …
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The Kemps: All True – The DVDfever Review – Martin Kemp, Gary Kemp
The Kemps: All True is a spoof documentary with Spandau Ballet brothers Martin Kemp and Gary Kemp, in the same vein as BBC2’s Brian Pern, with Simon Day – who also pops up here, because …
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