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Poldark is a drama for which I’d never previously seen an episode, either in this decade or from the ’70s, but felt I should give it a crack, and the second series opener begins with …
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Resident Evil 4 HD on Xbox One – The DVDfever Review
Resident Evil 4 is now out in a new HD remaster, and the whole Resident Evil series has been a powerhouse in survival horror for the past 20 years, since its debut on the Playstation …
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Cold Feet Series 6 Episode 1 (2016) – The DVDfever Review
Cold Feet returning… The more I heard about this – with the cast repeatedly telling us, here and there, that there is no way that Helen Baxendale would return as a ghost – made me …
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Goodnight Sweetheart – Many Happy Returns (2016) – The DVDfever Review
Goodnight Sweetheart was a hugely successful programme back in the ’90s, as it ran for six series, but I didnt’ really *get* ‘gentle comedy’ back then. I’ve cleared mellowed in older age as I enjoyed …
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Ellen – The DVDfever Review – Jessica Barden drama
Ellen is an accidental wayward teenager. Portrayed by the exceptional Jessica Barden, the 14-year-old drinks, smokes, and does drugs. She is the ultimate bad example, although given her home life, you can understand why this …
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Deus Ex Mankind Divided on Xbox One – The DVDfever Review
Deus Ex Mankind Divided: From Eidos Montreal and Square Enix comes this much awaited sequel – or 4th instalment – to the Deus Ex series. Adam Jensen (Elias Toufexis) returns with his augmented limbs to …
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Bad Moms – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Bad Moms stars Mila Kunis as Amy. She’s 32 and feeling old. At the coffee company where she works, everyone is under 25 and spends their days playing ping pong and rollerskating round the office. …
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The Truth Commissioner – The DVDfever Review – BBC – Roger Allam
The Truth Commissioner stars The Thick Of It‘s Roger Allam as Henry Stanfield, a man whose job has effectively robbed him of his family life by dominating his time, and now he’s in Belfast dealing …
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Victoria Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review – Jenna Coleman drama
Victoria, Queen Victoria. Yes, say that like “Bond, James Bond”, and Jenna Coleman steps into the lead role as her uncle, King William IV, is brown bread, and it’s only 1837 (what, not yet time …
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Young Hyacinth (2016) – The DVDfever Review
Young Hyacinth, with Kerry Howard in the lead role as Mrs Bucket-to-be, is a cleaner, who we see working for the ever-at-odds couple Dulcie (Debra Stephenson) and Claude (Tony Gardner), with him oddly calling his …
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