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Cider With Rosie is based on the late Laurie Lee‘s novel, partly autobiographical, telling the story of his growing up coming-of-age story set in the Cotswolds, in Gloucestershire, staring off during World War I and …
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The Witch’s Familiar – Doctor Who Series 9 Episode 2 – The DVDfever Review
The Witch’s Familiar is the second episode in Series 9, and I was so hoping for a return to form, of sorts, after the disappointment of the much-hyped series opener, The Magician’s Apprentice. Did it …
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Midwinter of the Spirit Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review
Midwinter of the Spirit did something that I don’t think I’ve ever seen in any other TV drama ever made – they finally gave a leading role to the brilliant Anna Maxwell Martin! The supernatural …
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The Go-Between (2015) – The DVDfever Review
The Go-Between is set in Norfolk, 1900, but begins in 1950 with the elderly Leo Colston (Jim Broadbent) lamenting in bucketfully. He wails (in his narration), “The past is a foreign country. They do things …
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The Magician’s Apprentice – Doctor Who Series 9 Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review
The Magician’s Apprentice is the first episode in Series 9 (if you’re only counting new series since 2005) and apparently the preview reviews had said it was amazing. Well, all the mainstream reviewers of the …
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The Gamechangers – The DVDfever Review
The Gamechangers tells the story of Rockstar Games, creators of the Grand Theft Auto franchise, and how one of their releases nearly brought down the company, thanks, in part, to a sticky-beak lawyer who needed …
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This Is England 90 Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review
This Is England 90 is the final series to feature the characters first seen in the movie This Is England from writer/director Shane Meadows, and I have to admit I haven’t seen a jot of …
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An Inspector Calls (2015) – The DVDfever Review
An Inspector Calls is the second in BBC1’s current series of literary classics being brought to the screen, and follows last week’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover which was exactly like every other adaptation – except that …
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Doctor Foster Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review
Doctor Foster looked predictable from the stylish trailer where Paloma Faith’s garish cover of Never Tear Us Apart wailed away in the background. And wouldn’t you know it – the first episode played out 100% …
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Lady Chatterley’s Lover (2015) – The DVDfever Review
Lady Chatterley’s Lover is the tale of this woman… Lady Chatterley is her name. She’s played by Holliday Grainger and she’s got this lover, and, erm… they get up to rumpy pumpy, except when it’s …
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