The Power is a new 9-part series on Prime Video, where a streaming service tells us it’s time, again, another Young Adult novel brought to the small screen. The essence is that, for reasons unexplained, …
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Tetris – The DVDfever Review – Apple TV+ – Taron Egerton
Tetris is the falling blocks game I remember playing when I was growing up, first hearing about it when it reached the Nintendo Gameboy in 1989, although I never had one of those, so it …
Continue readingMurder Mystery 2 – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Jennifer Aniston, Adam Sandler
Murder Mystery 2 is obviously the sequel to 2019’s Murder Mystery, which… I have to confess, I haven’t yet seen. Given that it features murders, I hope I’m not bumped off as a result. However, …
Continue readingKill Boksoon – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Jeon Do-yeon
Kill Boksoon is so-called because Gil Bok-soon (Jeon Do-yeon) is the best hired killer in the business, and we’ll first see her up against Kim Gwang-il, aka Oda Shinichiro – who waxes lyrical about being …
Continue readingSix Four – The DVDfever Review – ITVX drama – Kevin McKidd
Six Four is another TV cop drama, this one about cold cases, specialised in by DC Chris O’Neill (Kevin McKidd – Dog Soldiers), and in this case, he’s dealing with a case for a missing …
Continue readingJohn Wick Chapter 4 – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Keanu Reeves
John Wick Chapter 4 shows the titular hero, portrayed by Keanu Reeves (Bill And Ted Face The Music), is a man of few words, since following an opening horse chase, out in the desert – …
Continue readingWellmania – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Celeste Barber
Wellmania centres around Liv Healy (Celeste Barber), who wakes up in an ambulance, rather surprised at how she got there, before we go back to her in New York, 2 days earlier, when she’s having …
Continue readingBlue Lights – The DVDfever Review – BBC drama – Sian Brooke
Blue Lights centres around newbie cop PC Grace Ellis (Sian Brooke – No Return, Stephen), who’s just retrained after a long career in social service. Quite why she would is anyone’s guess, given that working …
Continue readingTempting Fortune – The DVDfever Review – Channel 4 gameshow – Paddy McGuinness
Tempting Fortune follows Rise And Fall, by being the second new gameshow on Channel 4 within the space of a week, and they don’t get too many of these, generally. There are 12 strangers meeting …
Continue readingGreat Expectations – The DVDfever Review – BBC drama – Olivia Colman
Great Expectations is something I didn’t particularly have for yet another adaptation of a Charles Dickens novel. I’ve never read it, but for whatever reason, previews of this were available for big websites, but not …
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