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Chinese Burn is a new BBC Three comedy pilot for which the billing states will “smash all Chinese stereotypes with a round-house kick”. It doesn’t, really. Dom RobinsonReviewer of movies, videogames and music since 1994. …
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Love, Lies and Records Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review – Kay Mellor
Love, Lies and Records is the latest Kay Mellor drama to hit TV screens and sees Ashley Jensen in a welcome return from the US to star in a UK series. The rather wordy, alliterative …
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Unspeakable – The DVDfever Review – Channel 4 drama
Unspeakable centres around Jo (Indira Varma) and her 11-year-old daughter Katie (Nina Sorrentino), who’s becoming increasingly distant, soon followed by Jo receiving a text message from someone unknown, who claims her nurse boyfriend, Danny (Luke …
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Sick Note Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review – Rupert Grint comedy
Sick Note had me from the trailer, simply because it’s the first time I’ve seen Don Johnson in a TV series since Miami Vice. However, the series mainly centres around Daniel Glass (Rupert Grint), who’s …
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Living The Dream – The DVDfever Review – Philip Glenister
Living the Dream is a new Sky One ‘fish out of water’ comedy/drama where Mal Pemberton (Philip Glenister) thinks the answer to life’s problems is to move him and his family out to Florida for …
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Human Is – Philip K Dick’s Electric Dreams Episode 6 – The DVDfever Review
Human Is is the sixth episode of Philip K Dick’s Electric Dreams, and takes place on Earth 2520AD, or Terra, as it’s known then. The planet’s not doing terribly well, but still, at least we …
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Gunpowder: The Complete Series – The DVDfever Review – Kit Harington
Gunpowder is centred around the 1605 Gunpowder plot, as Guy Fawkes wants to blow up the Houses of Parliament. However, this three-parter begins in 1603, at which point Elizabeth I has died, and James I …
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George Michael: Freedom – The DVDfever Review – Channel 4 documentary
George Michael: Freedom is the documentary he co-directed, himself, last year, unaware at the time that it would end up screening after he passed away, on Christmas Day 2016, from heart failure. An immense talent …
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Real Life – Philip K Dick’s Electric Dreams Episode 5 – The DVDfever Review
Real Life is the fifth episode of Philip K Dick’s Electric Dreams, and as well as PKD’s stories being quite weird, I understand a fair emount of the content has been changed, and to those …
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Gameface Series 1 – The DVDfever Review – Roisin Conaty
Gameface is the first full series for Man Down‘s Roisin Conaty as Marcella, part-time actress and mostly-time office temp, as her life lurches from one disaster to another. Thankfully, her disasters are our pleasure as …
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