“Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?” is the question asked by a man about to be deceased, courtesy of a fall down a steep hill, before he shuffles off his mortal coil. Dom RobinsonReviewer of movies, …
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Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies – The DVDfever Review – Paramount+ – Grease prequel
Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies is a title which sounds like it’s going to be a spin-off from the Transformers franchise, yet is merely a prequel to the huge 1978 musical Grease, and is …
Continue readingTransatlantic – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Gillian Jacobs
Transatlantic takes place in Marseille, France, in 1940, and the Nazis still need to be stopped. Given their actions, there are lots of refugees who are, like the Bonnie Tyler song, Lost in France, but …
Continue readingDreamland – The DVDfever Review – Sky Atlantic – Lily Allen, Freema Agyeman
Dreamland brings us Lily Allen‘s first TV drama role, as Mel, who likes her drink too much, and she’s also the sibling of Trish (Freema Agyeman – Eat Locals). They must be identical sisters! Everyone’s …
Continue readingThe Power – The DVDfever Review – Amazon Prime Video – Toni Collette
The Power is a new 9-part series on Prime Video, where a streaming service tells us it’s time, again, another Young Adult novel brought to the small screen. The essence is that, for reasons unexplained, …
Continue readingSix Four – The DVDfever Review – ITVX drama – Kevin McKidd
Six Four is another TV cop drama, this one about cold cases, specialised in by DC Chris O’Neill (Kevin McKidd – Dog Soldiers), and in this case, he’s dealing with a case for a missing …
Continue readingWellmania – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Celeste Barber
Wellmania centres around Liv Healy (Celeste Barber), who wakes up in an ambulance, rather surprised at how she got there, before we go back to her in New York, 2 days earlier, when she’s having …
Continue readingBlue Lights – The DVDfever Review – BBC drama – Sian Brooke
Blue Lights centres around newbie cop PC Grace Ellis (Sian Brooke – No Return, Stephen), who’s just retrained after a long career in social service. Quite why she would is anyone’s guess, given that working …
Continue readingTempting Fortune – The DVDfever Review – Channel 4 gameshow – Paddy McGuinness
Tempting Fortune follows Rise And Fall, by being the second new gameshow on Channel 4 within the space of a week, and they don’t get too many of these, generally. There are 12 strangers meeting …
Continue readingGreat Expectations – The DVDfever Review – BBC drama – Olivia Colman
Great Expectations is something I didn’t particularly have for yet another adaptation of a Charles Dickens novel. I’ve never read it, but for whatever reason, previews of this were available for big websites, but not …
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