The Crown Season 6 Part 1 is here, and it rather works in my favour that I drifted off with Season 5 around halfway through, and only really caught up with the rest in the …
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Monarch: Legacy of Monsters – The DVDfever Review – Apple TV+ – Anna Sawai, Kurt Russell
Monarch: Legacy of Monsters is a new 10-part action series from Apple TV+ which continues on from the recent ‘universe’ of Godzilla movies, from the medicore 2014 movie, 2017’s better Kong: Skull Island, 2019’s less-than-stellar …
Continue reading007 Road to a Million – The DVDfever Review – Amazon Prime Video – Brian Cox
007 Road to a Million is a new 8-part adventure gameshow on Prime Video, in which Brian Cox (the good one) sits in his lair, watching every contestant on a bank of TV monitors. The …
Continue readingCulprits – The DVDfever Review – Disney+ – Gemma Arterton
Culprits is a new Disney+ drama – on Hulu in the US – and if it has one thing going for it, it delivers an engaging opening to the episodes, the first one setting out …
Continue readingLawmen: Bass Reeves – The DVDfever Review – Paramount+ – David Oyelowo
Lawmen: Bass Reeves stars David Oyelowo (See How They Run) in the titular role of the real-life man who later became the first black Deputy US Marshal. It’s 1862, the time of the American Civil …
Continue readingAll The Light We Cannot See – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Aria Mia Loberti
All the Light We Cannot See is a new Netflix 4-part mini series, based on the novel by Anthony Doerr, beginning in St Malo, Nazi-Occupied France, in August 1944. The US Army Air Forces, 565th …
Continue readingBanged Up – The DVDfever Review – Channel 4 – Sid Owen, Johnny Mercer
Banged Up takes place in HMP Shrewsbury, which has been shut down for ten years and is about to get an influx of newcomers – a mix of celebs and real prisoners, one even teaching …
Continue readingTime Series 2 – The DVDfever Review – BBC drama – Jodie Whittaker, Bella Ramsey
Time Series 2 brings the prison drama back to our screens after a blistering first three-parter with Sean Bean and Stephen Graham. Before we know what’s happened, one minute, we see single mother Orla (Jodie …
Continue readingThree Little Birds – The DVDfever Review – ITV drama – Lenny Henry
Three Little Birds is Lenny Henry’s Windrush drama, which he has created and co-written by Lenny Henry, best known to the kid me as being on Tiswas and then his own sketch show, before later …
Continue readingThe Burning Girls – The DVDfever Review – Paramount+ – Samantha Morton
The Burning Girls starts off in 1556, in the Chapel Croft Village, Sussex, where two girls are being burned at the stake. So, not exactly a family-friendly start to the proceedings, and then fast-forward to …
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