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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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Totally Killer – The DVDfever Review – Amazon Prime Video – Kiernan Shipka
Totally Killer is a new movie for Amazon Prime Video, where it’s Halloween in 2023… or, most likely, in 2022, since this film harks back to 1987 as being “35 years ago” when the Sweet …
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Bargain – The DVDfever Review – Paramount+ – Jeon Jong-seo
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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