The Good Ship Murder is a new escapist whodunit drama from Channel 5, led by Jack Grayling, former cop and now the lounge cabaret singer on this luxury Mediterranean cruise ship. Catherine Tyldesley (Scarborough, Viewpoint) …
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The Fall Of The House Of Usher – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Carla Gugino
The Fall of the House of Usher is a new 8-part Netflix series, as well as the title of one of Edgar Allen Poe‘s short stories, and as I see the episode listing coming up, …
Continue readingThe Reckoning – The DVDfever Review – BBC drama – Steve Coogan
The Reckoning is the four-part drama which starts Steve Coogan (This Time With Alan Partridge) as the late, disgraced DJ Jimmy Savile, given everything we now know he got up to during his life and …
Continue readingFrasier – The DVDfever Review – Paramount+ – Kelsey Grammer
Frasier is back in the building, and while repeats of the original 11-season run continue daily on Channel 4, this return to our screens is only on Paramount+ I have to say that I was …
Continue readingSaw X – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Tobin Bell, Shawnee Smith
Saw X was techncially part of a double-bill, which I saw alongside Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie – although to be more accurate, part of five films, also adding in The Old Oak, The Creator …
Continue readingPaw Patrol: The Mighty Movie – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Mckenna Grace
Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie begins with a short film – Dora and the Fantastical Creatures – which is thankfully brief at just five minutes in length, before we move on to the main feature, …
Continue readingDumb Money – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Paul Dano
Dumb Money is the term given for individual investors buying stock in a company, in case you’re wondering… as I was, but this does get spelled out along the way. Taking the lead in this …
Continue readingThe Creator – The DVDfever Cinema Review – John David Washington, Gemma Chan
The Creator is a much-hyped new sci-fi concept movie from Gareth Edwards, who in the past decade brought us the great Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, but the poor 2014 variant of Godzilla. This …
Continue readingPet Sematary: Bloodlines – The DVDfever Review – Paramount+ – Jack Mulhern
Pet Sematary: Bloodlines extends the franchise, originally based on the Stephen King novel, Pet Sematary. The original movie was never the greatest, and after the 2019 reboot, I doubt we needed another entry in the …
Continue readingThe Old Oak – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Ken Loach
The Old Oak – so-called because it’s the name of the last remaining pub in the area – opens with one of many Syrian families moving into Newcastle-upon-Tyne area, the area run-down and deprived like …
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