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 …
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Category: TV Series
Domina – 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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Danny Boy – The DVDfever Review – Anthony Boyle, Toby Jones
Danny Boy… Operation Danny Boy… This is a feature-length drama based on a real-life situation about a platoon of British soldiers who were ambushed in Southern Iraq, and the 1st Battalion, Princess of Wales’ Royal …
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Wuthering Heist – Inside No.9 Series 6 Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review
Wuthering Heist is the first episode of Inside No.9 Series 6, and centres aroudnd a planned £12m robbery of rough-cut diamonds, hence the ‘heist’ part. Gemma Whelan, as Columbina, breaks the fourth wall, describing the …
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Three Families – The DVDfever Review – BBC drama – Theresa Ryan
Three Families comes from the same team as 2017’s Three Girls, and centres around the sensitive topic of abortion, the Abortion Act 1967 subsequently permitting this within the UK… except for Northern Ireland. In my …
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Jupiter’s Legacy – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Josh Duhamel, Leslie Bibb
Jupiter’s Legacy is based on a 2013 comic book which I hadn’t heard of until now, and centres around the world’s first superheroes, whilst jumping back and forth in time, slightly, to tell its story. …
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The Pursuit of Love – The DVDfever Review – Lily James, Emily Beecham
The Pursuit Of Love is a new three-parter staring Lily James (Baby Driver), and rather a change of pace after seven weeks of Line of Duty, and discovering who H is… or clearly wasn’t, if …
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Bloods – The DVDfever Review – Sky One – Jane Horrocks, Samson Kayo
Bloods follows paramedics, who we first see providing CPR to a man on the banks of Canary Wharf, when a fist bump between Maleek (Samson Kayo – Death To 2020) and Darryl (Kevin Garry) leads …
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Line Of Duty Series 6 – The DVDfever Review – Adrian Dunbar, Vicky McClure
Line Of Duty Series 6 is here! Every series, the plot is so hidden from view prior to broadcast that Brad Pitt would allow you to say far more about Fight Club than the exploits …
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Viewpoint – The DVDfever Review – Noel Clarke – FINALE PULLED FROM SCHEDULE!
Viewpoint: 2nd UPDATE 30 April 2021: The finale is now on the ITV Hub, and it’s just there for 2 days at the time of posting this. I assumed it would be seven days, but …
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