Educating Greater Manchester is the latest in Channel 4’s ‘Educating’ series, and I’ve seen occasional episodes of previous ones, but since I live in Greater Manchester and like seeing our great city on the telly, …
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Logan Lucky – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Logan Lucky is rather an odd title, and doesn’t trip off the tongue as well as ‘Lucky Logan’ would’ve done, but then how much luck is in store for anyone in this movie remains to …
Continue readingAmerican Made – The DVDfever Cinema Review
American Made begins in 1978, but is told in flashback from late 2015, with Tom Cruise as Barry Seal, who flies planes very adeptly for TWA, but is not adverse to using the trips to …
Continue readingThe Great British Bake Off – Channel 4 Episode 1 (Series 8) – The DVDfever Review
The Great British Bake Off is a programme I’ve never seen before, but when it was announced that it was making the move from BBC1 to Channel 4, in an expensive £75m three-year deal, fans …
Continue readingThe Endless Summer Special Edition on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
The Endless Summer is documentary filmmaker Bruce Brown’s movie about the search for the perfect wave, and how the ultimate achievement is to get covered by the wave, as if you’re riding through a tube. …
Continue readingStrike – The Cuckoo’s Calling – Complete Series – The DVDfever Review
Strike… Cormoran Strike. Who on Earth has a surname of Strike? Maybe that’s why JK picked it. Yes, JK Rowling, since Robert Galbraith, the ‘author’ of the books on which this series is based, is …
Continue readingBushwick – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Bushwick is an area of Brooklyn, New York, where the world has been completely turned upon its head. We first see Lucy (Brittany Snow) trying to get to her grandma’s house after finishing college for …
Continue readingDeath Note – The DVDfever Cinema / Netflix Review
Death Note has the simple premise about a book which passes from one owner to another, and whoever possesses it at the time can write the name of the person they want to die, as …
Continue readingTheir Finest on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Their Finest – based on the novel, Their Finest Hour And A Half – in case you wondered why the title didn’t make a huge heap of sense and was wildly ambiguous – centres around …
Continue readingStreetmate (2017) Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review – Scarlett Moffatt
Streetmate shows that if Channel 4 hadn’t learned their lesson about the car crash that is Scarlett Moffatt from Host The Week, when she killed it off in its inaugral episode, they might never learn…. …
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