Friends Reunion: A money-spinner shot on the cheapest of sets, where each main cast member ended up earning $1m per episode. As they each arrive on set, David Schwimmer‘s been using the Just For Men, …
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The Beast Must Die – The DVDfever Review – Cush Jumbo, Jared Harris
The Beast Must Die is not a gripe by a bad contestant on The Chase, but is actually a new Britbox drama set on the Isle of Wight and, I understand, based on a 1938 …
Continue readingLip Service – Inside No.9 Series 6 Episode 3 – The DVDfever Review
Lip Service is the third episode of Inside No.9 Series 6. Felix (Steve Pemberton) is keeping a watchful eye on house No.9, like a surveillance expert, and has taken his place in a very rundown …
Continue readingSolos – The DVDfever Review – Anthony Mackie, Helen Mirren – Amazon Prime
Solos is a 7-part series with individual monologues – or at least each starring one actor, the first being Anthony Mackie (The Falcon and the Winter Soldier) as Tom, who’s playing two characters arguing with …
Continue readingInnocent Series 2 – The DVDfever Review – Katherine Kelly – ITV drama
Innocent Series 2 follows three years on from the first series, but the case is entirely new, so you don’t need to have seen the first one to know what’s going on, and the only …
Continue readingWe Are Lady Parts – The DVDfever Review – Nida Manzoor, Anjana Vasan
We Are Lady Parts – the story of the Muslim equivalent of the Sex Pistols, as the band forms out of the angst of trying to find a husband. It centres around Amina (Anjana Vasan, …
Continue readingSimon Says – Inside No.9 Series 6 Episode 2 – The DVDfever Review
Simon Says is the second episode of Inside No.9 Series 6. Frustrated after a long evening, writer Spencer Maguire (Steve Pemberton, with a hairdo in the style of David Lynch) gets home after learning how …
Continue readingThe Pact – The DVDfever Review – Laura Fraser – BBC drama
The Pact centres around a group of friends working at a brewery, led by Laura Fraser (Traces) as Alice, who tries to apply for the supervisor position, but boss Jack (Aneurin Barnard) is such a …
Continue readingThe Underground Railroad – The DVDfever Review – Thuso Mbedu, Joel Edgerton
The Underground Railroad is an adaption of a 2016 novel which comes across as a bit of a mixed bag. It starts off rather arthouse-style with people walking backwards while Cora’s mother gives birth to …
Continue readingDomina – The DVDfever Review – Nadia Parkes – ‘Game of Romes’
Domina tells the story of Livia Drusilla (starting as Nadia Parkes, before moving on to Kasia Smutniak), who in an opening voiceover tells us she’s killed many people, and that the first rule of power …
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