Kaleidoscope is a one-off series where, for the first time that I can remember, the episodes are purposely NOT shown to you in a chronological order from start to finish. I sort-of had a similar …
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The Bishop’s Wife 75th Anniversary – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Cary Grant
The Bishop’s Wife is a film which could have any title, really, since it’s centred around three characters, but just picks one of them. Of the trio, I would’ve thought David Niven had the most …
Continue readingMarie Antoinette – The DVDfever Review – BBC drama – Emilia Schüle
Marie Antoinette is a new 8-part drama about the lady who may or may not have declared, “Let them eat cake!”, but certainly wasn’t needing to be planning a 40th birthday party any time soon… …
Continue readingPrince Andrew: The Musical – The DVDfever Review – Channel 4 – Kieran Hodgson
Prince Andrew: The Musical… Can’t say I’m too big a fan of most musicals*, but then no-one sane is a fan of Prince Andrew, a paedophile whose late mother, Queen Elizabeth II, used £12m of …
Continue readingRiptide – The DVDfever Review – Channel 5 drama – Jo Joyner, Peter O’Brien
Riptide isn’t just an ’80s Robert Palmer album, but a new 4-part Channel 5 drama over just as many nights. This nightly opus begins with Shane Ramsay from Neighours, sorry, Sean (Peter O’Brien), still surfing …
Continue readingMayflies – The DVDfever Review – BBC drama – Martin Compston, Tony Curran
Mayflies begins with a ‘thought for the day’ that sounds thoughtful, but then is quickly forgotten about… “They say you know nothing at 18, but there are things you know at 18, that you will …
Continue readingTreason – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Charlie Cox, Olga Kurylenko
Treason is a new Netflix five-part drama where deputy head of MI6, Adam Laurence (Charlie Cox – King Of Thieves), is giving a talk to his son Callum’s school about working for the service, when …
Continue readingThe Canterville Ghost – The DVDfever Review – Channel 5 drama – Anthony Head
The Canterville Ghost is based on an Oscar Wilde story, which was made into a 95-minute comedy in 1944, but here, it’s four hours including adverts. Did they get James Cameron to write it, or …
Continue readingHighlander 4K Boxset Collector’s Edition on 4K Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review and Unboxing!
Highlander 4K Boxset Collector’s Edition is out now, and this is a film I’ve seen a few times before now, the last being for the 30th Anniversary Blu-ray release. I’ll also say at this point …
Continue readingThe Fabulous – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Chae Soo-bin
The Fabulous is rather a screwball South Korean comedy/drama centred around Pyo Ji-eun (Chae Soo-bin), who works as head of PR at the luxury fashion brand agency, AUDREY. We first see her waking up in …
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