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Bargain begins with a man, who I thought was having a first date in a clandestine hotel room situation, with a young 18-year-old woman, Park Joo Young (Jeon Jong-seo), who claims to be a virgin, …
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Payback – The DVDfever Review – ITV drama – Morven Christie, Peter Mullan
Payback is a new six-part thriller on ITV which has Jed Mecurio’s name attached to it – he who brought us the brilliant Line of Duty – yet, it’s not him writing the script, which …
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Partygate – The DVDfever Review – Channel 4 – Georgie Henley
Partygate is something that shouldn’t have to exist, as a drama. However, it does, because we currently have the most corrupt bunch of bastards in power than I’ve ever seen in my lifetime. When the …
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Expend4bles – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham
Expend4bles… aka, The Expendables 4, sees most of the original crew back, but with such a dumb plot, beginning with Barney (Sylvester Stallone – The Family Stallone) wanting his finger ring back, after losing it …
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Boiling Point (2023) – The DVDfever Review – BBC drama – Stephen Graham
Boiling Point (2023) follows on from the 2021 movie, which hasn’t yet aired on regular telly – the fact of which does seem rather an odd mis-step, but if you have Netflix, you can see …
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Gen V – The DVDfever Review – Amazon Prime Video – Jaz Sinclair, Lizze Broadway
Gen V is a spin-off from Prime Video’s The Boys, a series I haven’t seen, but hey, superhero movies and shows – how different can they be compared to the equivalent I’ve seen before many …
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Crimes Of The Future on 4K Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review – David Cronenberg
Crimes Of The Future shows that if David Cronenberg hasn’t turned your stomach in the past with his films like Videodrome, he’s sure to do it with this one. Children can cause concern for their …
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The Long Shadow – The DVDfever Review – ITV drama – Daniel Mays, Toby Jones
The Long Shadow looks at the case regarding the Yorkshire Ripper, Peter Sutcliffe, in the ’70s. I was only a child at the time, but I still remember it being in the news. The opener …
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Rise of the Footsoldier: Vengeance – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Craig Fairbrass
Rise of the Footsoldier: Vengeance is the sixth film in a franchise of which I’ve been aware, but never seen before. I see the first film was released in cinemas, but most of the others …
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Bolan’s Shoes – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Timothy Spall, Leanne Best
Bolan’s Shoes, the footwear of which, makes for a rather tenuous link to give this British film more gravitas than it deserves. Siblings Jimmy (Timothy Spall – Away, The Sixth Commandment) and Penny (Leanne Best …
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