Press centres aroud two newspapers in this fictionalised Fleet Street. Workaholic Holly Evans (Charlotte Riley) works for the Herald, while Duncan Allen (Ben Chaplin) edits The Post, a more tabloid paper, and given their logo, …
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Wanderlust Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review – Toni Collette
Wanderlust made me think it was going to go the way of David Cronenberg’s Crash, at first, as Joy (Toni Colette) was shown being involved in a car crash when someone whacked into her bike …
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Mother’s Day – The DVDfever Review – Warrington bomb BBC drama
Mother’s Day relives the harrowing day on Saturday, March 20th 1993, the day before Mother’s Day, and the day the IRA bombed Warrington, claiming the lives of young 12-year-old Tim Parry and 3-year-old Johnathan Ball. …
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Bodyguard Series 1 – The DVDfever Review – Richard Madden
Bodyguard begins with Afghanistan war veteran cop David Budd (Richard Madden) tries to play “spot the terrorist” on a train, and he quickly makes himself the ‘Liam Neeson’ of the piece. Before getting into more …
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Jack Ryan Season 1 – The DVDfever Review
Jack Ryan is the CIA Analyst who’s been played onscreen by as many people as I have fingers on one hand. First, Alec Baldwin took the role in 1990’s The Hunt For Red October, followed …
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Disenchantment Season 1 – The DVDfever Review – Netflix
Disenchantment is the latest creation from The Simpsons and Futurama head honcho Matt Groening. Set in Medieval times, in a fantasy kingdom called Dreamland, it centres around Tiabeanie – aka Bean (Abbi Jacobson), a hard-drinking …
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Hang Ups Series 1 – The DVDfever Review – Stephen Mangan
Hang Ups is, effectively, another of those ‘one room’ comedies, this one the house of Richard Pitt (Stephen Mangan), a therapist whose business collapsed, so today is Day One of working from home (so, a …
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Age Before Beauty Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review – Robson Green
Age Before Beauty proves that yet again, if it’s Tuesday night on BBC1 at 9pm, it’s “TV for women” hour… and this new drama has lots of them working in a beauty parlour. As the …
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Travels in Trumpland with Ed Balls Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review
Travels in Trumpland with Ed Balls begins with the MP losing his seat when they go for the voting count (yes, I said COUNT!) Sadly, he went on to be the resident idiot on Strictly …
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Mark Kermode’s Secrets of Cinema Episodes 1 and 2 – The DVDfever Review
Mark Kermode’s Secrets of Cinema is a new five-part BBC4 series about the movie critic’s first love, which starts with romantic comedies, and it doesn’t take long before Mr Kermode breaks films down a bit …
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