The Doll Factory centres around a young woman named Iris (Esme Creed-Miles) who, with her twin-sister Rose (Mirren Mack) – who suffered from smallpox at the age of 16, are painting the faces of dolls …
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The Star Beast – Doctor Who 60th Anniversary – The DVDfever Review – David Tennant, Catherine Tate
The Star Beast sees Russell T Davies return to writing Doctor Who, as if he didn’t destroy it enough last time, trying to throw in diversity amongst the cast, over writing a coherent script. Last …
Continue readingThe Couple Next Door – The DVDfever Review – Channel 4 – Eleanor Tomlinson, Sam Heughan
The Couple Next Door is a new Channel 4 thriller which looks, from the trailer, like everyone’s up to no good. Evie (Eleanor Tomlinson – The Outlaws) and Peter (Alfred Enoch) move in to what …
Continue readingOne Night – The DVDfever Review – Paramount+ – Jodie Whittaker
One Night sees the Australian mini-series come to the UK about a trio of friends who had a situation happen… one night… 20 years ago. Starting in the present day, Tess (Jodie Whittaker – Doctor …
Continue readingDeal Or No Deal – The DVDfever Preview – ITV gameshow – Stephen Mulhern
Deal Or No Deal returns, this time to ITV, and in the hands of the very personable Stephen Mulhern. The gameshow was a huge hit when Noel Edmonds brought it to our screens, but everything …
Continue readingBoat Story – The DVDfever Review – BBC drama – Paterson Joseph, Daisy Haggard
Boat Story is story about a boat… Ooh, you weren’t expect that, were you? This new drama has a very weird prologue with a voiceover trying to be funny, announcing it as starting “under a …
Continue readingThe Crown Season 6 Part 1 – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Elizabeth Debicki
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 …
Continue readingMonarch: 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 …
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