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Screw is a new prison drama on Channel 4, and as well as being a bit of an edgy title, my first thought was that when I requested it, is Microsoft Outlook going to think …
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BFI London Film Festival 2021 Part 2 by Helen M Jerome – The DVDfever Review
BFI London Film Festival 2021 Part 2: Here we go. As promised, the follow-up to the first part of our extensive overview of LFF 2021 focuses on some outstanding directorial debuts, documentaries and a couple …
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Four Lives – The DVDfever Review – BBC drama – Sheridan Smith
Four Lives is based on a true story, and stars the omnipresent Sheridan Smith as Sarah Sak, mother to Anthony Walgate (Tim Preston), a young fashion designer who, in 2014, tells his best friend, China, …
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Anne – The DVDfever Review – Maxine Peake – ITV Hillsborough drama
Anne centres around Anne Williams, played here by Maxine Peake, whose son, Kevin, died in the harrowing disaster at Hillsborough Stadium, Sheffield, on April 15th 1989, the death toll for which now stands at 97, …
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The Lost Daughter – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Olivia Colman
The Lost Daughter centres around Leda (Olivia Colman – The Father), who we’re shown collapsing on a beach in Greece before events go back to the start of her holiday, there, taking accommation at a …
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Eve Of The Daleks – Doctor Who 2022 New Year Special – The DVDfever Review
Eve Of The Daleks makes me ask: Is this the first new Doctor Who episode from Chris Chibnall which will actually make sense? In the end… no, he was just trying to tick as many …
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The Tourist – The DVDfever Review – BBC drama – Jamie Dornan
The Tourist begins with a traffic collision with a truck for an as-yet-unnamed man, played by Jamie Dornan, who then wakes up in a hospital bed, but has no idea who he is, or that …
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BFI London Film Festival 2021 Part 1 by Helen M Jerome – The DVDfever Review
BFI London Film Festival 2021 Part 1: Back to life. Back to normality. Well, almost. After a 90 per cent online festival in 2020, in 2021 the BFI opted to make it almost totally in-person, …
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Stay Close – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Cush Jumbo, James Nesbitt
Stay Close comes from Harlan Coben, who also brought us 2020’s The Stranger, an engaging, but occasionally daft, drama. However, I loved that it was set in my home town of Stockport. The basic premise …
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The Silent Sea – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Bae Doona
The Silent Sea begins with a tragedy, of a spaceship having had some sort of an accident while on a mission to the Moon, leaving everyone upside down and the engines also down. Then we …
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