Porridge, aka, the slop once served up for breakfast in the nick, which led to “doing porridge” being slang for serving a prison sentence, doesn’t bring Ronnie Barker’s character back into it, but attempts to …
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Are You Being Served? (2016) – The DVDfever Review
Are You Being Served? is one of the sitcoms being revived for a one-off special by the BBC, and ran for an – unprecedented by today’s standards – ten series from 1972 to 1985, whereas …
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The Circuit – The DVDfever Review – Channel 4 Pilot
The Circuit was a title that baffled me. Is that what dinner parties are referred to? Perhaps it’s when someone invites you to one, and so you have to reciprocate. New to the area, Nat …
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The Watchman – The DVDfever Review – Stephen Graham drama
The Watchman centres around security guard Carl Freeman (Stephen Graham – Orthodox), a man who spends all his nights alone in a darkened room, and who sees all but can only phone the police if …
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One Of Us Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review
One Of Us, one of us, one of us, one of us… sorry, no, there’s no repetitive chanting, here. The four-parter begins with the lovely tale of Adam and Grace (Jeremy Newmark Jones and Kate …
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David Brent: Life On The Road – The DVDfever Cinema Review
David Brent: Life On The Road shows that when it comes to his character from The Office, Ricky Gervais is having the last laugh. And it’s on us. Gervais once used to make fresh, original …
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500 Questions Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review
As ITV scrabble around to find something as good as The Chase, they hire Giles Coren to host new primetime show 500 Questions. Can Giles Coren (right) count up to 500? Well, this pillock couldn’t …
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Sweet Bean on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Sweet Bean centres around Sentarô (Mystery Train‘s Masatoshi Nagase), a man who’s as miserable a chef as I was when I used to work in a Little Chef, half a lifetime ago, looking at every …
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Miles Ahead on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Miles Ahead‘s rather loose storyline is that journalist Dave Braben (Ewan McGregor) claims to have been sent by Rolling Stone magazine to write a story about the fact Miles has been awawy from the music …
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The Jungle Book 3D (2016) on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
The Jungle Book is a film that needs no introduction… so, I’ll introduce the review by telling you it needs… yep, you’re already ahead of me. Mowgli (Neel Sethi) is the boy, I mean, man-cub, …
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