The Night Manager is the first John Le Carré novel to become a TV series in more than 20 years, following 1991’s TV movie, A Murder of Quality, starring Denholm Elliott, Joss Ackland and Glenda …
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The Program on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
The Progman centres around investigative Sunday Times sports writer David Walsh (Chris O’Dowd) covering the Tour de France, getting suspicious about Lance Armstrong’s (Ben Foster) team because they’re winning tour after tour, but Armstrong can’t …
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One Child Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review
One Child is part of BBC’s China Season and the title is also the policy within China of one child per household. That policy plays a part in this, but it doesn’t dominate the proceedings, …
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Pride And Prejudice And Zombies – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Pride And Prejudice And Zombies started off okay. The title tells you everything you need to know and the movie sets the scene with an opening monologue from a posh-sounding Lily James as the post …
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Deadpool – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Deadpool, aka Wade Winston Wilson, and performed by Ryan Reynolds, was last seen on the big screen in the rather tiresome X-Men Origins: Wolverine movie in 2009. And whether released properly through Marvel, or sometimes …
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The Lobster on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
The Lobster, sadly, didn’t win the Outstanding British Film at the BAFTAs, as that went to Brooklyn, but if it were available, it would easily win the ‘Weirdest Film’ award of the past year. The …
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Sheba, Baby on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Sheba, Baby stars Pam Grier as Sheba Shayne, Baby, whose father, Andy (Rudy Challenger), Baby, runs a loan company, and he’s being hassled out of the business by bad guys. Someone needs to shake them …
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Trumbo – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Trumbo, Dalton Trumbo. Prolific and successful screenwriter but a communist. Hollywood liked the former, but not the latter. The film begins in 1947, yet Trumbo joined the Communist Party of the USA in 1943 after …
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Five Dolls For An August Moon on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Five Dolls For An August Moon is a film I’d not heard of before, but amongst Arrow’s vast back-catalogue of slasher horror cult classics, I’m slowly working through them one by one and filling in …
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Moving With Momentum – new vlog online
Moving With Momentum is a new vlog where I look at the action movie Momentum, starring Olga Kurylenko (Quantum Of Solace, Oblivion), James Purefoy (High-Rise, Episodes, The Following), Shelley Nicole and Morgan Freeman (Now You …
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