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Baghead – what a name for a movie! Sounds like some sort of Scouse slur. The film opens with Owen Lark (Peter Mullan, chewing scenery, as usual), making one of those movie “If you’re watching …
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A Bloody Lucky Day – The DVDfever Review – Paramount+ – South Korean drama
A Bloody Lucky Day is a new South Korean drama, centering around taxi driver Oh Taek (Lee Sung-min), who is, indeed having a good one, when he starts off his shift by getting some tips, …
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The Dry – The DVDfever Review – ITV drama – Roisin Gallagher
The Dry is a new Britbox drama centering around Shiv Sheridan (Roisin Gallagher – The Lovers), a woman who’s sobering up for the first time in her life. As such, when she arrivesat the airport, …
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Trigger Point Series 2 – The DVDfever Review – ITV drama – Vicky McClure
Trigger Point Series 2 sees Lana (Vicky McClure – Without Sin) returning to the fore after having spent six months training bomb disposal teams in Estonia. Her first task is to give a routine talk …
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Expats – The DVDfever Review – Amazon Prime Video – Nicole Kidman, Ji-young Yoo
Expats is rich people’s problems, and less Desperate Housewives, but more Desperate Scriptwriting, since in order to get to an hour each episode in the first two, there’s more filler in the script than there …
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The Holdovers – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Paul Giamatti
The Holdovers feels rather like a 1970s version of The Breakfast Club, in part, since out of all the teachers at Barton Academy, its classics professor, Paul Hunham (Paul Giamatti – Love And Mercy), draws …
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Mean Girls – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Angourie Rice (+ POST-CREDIT SCENE BREAKDOWN)
Mean Girls is a musical remake of a story about being popular and hot, originally placing Lindsay Lohan in the lead role of 16-year-old Cady Heron, who goes from being home-schooled in Africa to having …
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Masters of the Air – The DVDfever Review – Apple TV+ – Austin Butler, Barry Keoghan
Masters of the Air is a new 8-part drama on Apple TV+ from the creators of Band of Brothers, so we already know the precedent this is going to set, since that was a wonderful …
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Sexy Beast – The DVDfever Review – Paramount+ – James McArdle, Emun Elliott
Sexy Beast is an 8-part TV series based on the 2000 hit movie, which starred Ray Winstone in the lead as Gal Dove. Now with Gal portrayed by James McArdle (Andor) as a very smooth …
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The End We Start From – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Jodie Comer
The End We Start From felt like we were going to get beaten over the head with ‘climate change’ propaganda, telling us that big storms are happening because someone in your street bought a ‘gas …
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