Traces opens with Emma Hedges’ (Molly Windsor – Cheat) mother having been murdered and she bursts into Professor Sarah Gordon’s (Laura Fraser) office, wanting to share her thoughts on how to solve it… Then flashback …
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Shpeed! on ZX Spectrum Next – Let’s Play – 2020 Indie Game
Shpeed! is a new ZX Spectrum Next game now available from Lee Duke and Bitmap Soft, and while it stems from an Acorn Archimedes game from 1994, it also reminds me of the all-time arcade …
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Equinox – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Danica Curcic
Equinox is a new Danish drama on Netflix which starts in 1999, where and a large group of young male and female graduates head off on a party bus and disappear… That said, the bus …
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Pandemonium – The DVDfever Review – Alison Steadman
Pandemonium is a one-off sitcom episode in a lockdown setting… and no doubt, if it’s a hit, it’ll return for a full series. However, as the family is filmed, from January 2020 onwards, beginning with …
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Lingo – The DVDfever Review – Adil Ray – ITV Gameshow
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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