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Top Gun: Maverick is now in cinemas after many false starts, and right off the bat it has the feels, firstly with one thing I spotted, but many won’t. This sequel to 1986’s Top Gun …
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The Midwich Cuckoos – The DVDfever Review – Sky Showcase – Keeley Hawes
The Midwich Cuckoos is an adaptation of the John Wyndham novel, and a situation where I never saw any other version which has gone before (and I haven’t read a novel since I left school). …
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Big Boys – The DVDfever Review – Channel 4 – Jon Pointing, Dylan Llewellyn
Big Boys has a rather wordy opening scene (in fact, most of the episode), telling us how in September 2011, Jack’s (Dylan Llewellyn) Dad had died at the age of 56, and “he was the …
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A Random Act of Kindness – Inside No.9 Series 7 Episode 5 – The DVDfever Review
A Random Act of Kindness is the fifth episode of Inside No.9 Series 7. This episode starts with narration from Rudolph (Reece Shearsmith) giving us some seemingly innocuous information about Newton’s laws of motion, relating …
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Silverton Siege – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Arnold Vosloo
Silverton Siege takes a look at the real-life Seahorse sabotage mission, in Pretoria, South Africa in 1980. The plan for the ‘Silverton Trio’ is that when they were larger in number, they’d sabotage strategic key …
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Senior Year – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Rebel Wilson
Senior Year centres around Stephanie Conway – Rebel Wilson (Grimsby), for most of the film, but as Angourie Rice (The Nice Guys) in earlier scenes – whose mother has long since passed away yet she …
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Everything Everywhere All At Once – The DVDfever Review – Michelle Yeoh
Everything Everywhere All At Once is not really an easy film to describe, but can be if I was to just say “because Multiverse”, and if you’re familiar with this concept. Opening with a scene …
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Kid/Nap – Inside No.9 Series 7 Episode 4 – The DVDfever Review
Kid/Nap is the fourth episode of Inside No.9 Series 7. It opens with Lara (Daisy Haggard) and Shane (Daniel Mays) living separate lives, with hers appearing considerably better off than his, but the opening scene …
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Spreadsheet – The DVDfever Review – Channel 4 – Katherine Parkinson
Spreadsheet centres around Lauren (Katherine Parkinson – Hang Ups) who begins the first episode with what her male colleague, Alex (Rowan Witt), later refers to as ‘alfresco dining’. Our lead is constantly on dates… Well, …
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Floodlights – The DVDfever Review – BBC – Gerard Kearns, Jonas Armstrong
Floodlights centres around Andrew Woodward (Gerard Kearns, as an adult, but played by Max Fletcher in his younger years) who, as a young boy, was assaulted many times by football coach Barry Bennell (Jonas Armstrong), …
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