Innocent Series 2 follows three years on from the first series, but the case is entirely new, so you don’t need to have seen the first one to know what’s going on, and the only …
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We Are Lady Parts – The DVDfever Review – Nida Manzoor, Anjana Vasan
We Are Lady Parts – the story of the Muslim equivalent of the Sex Pistols, as the band forms out of the angst of trying to find a husband. It centres around Amina (Anjana Vasan, …
Continue readingSimon Says – Inside No.9 Series 6 Episode 2 – The DVDfever Review
Simon Says is the second episode of Inside No.9 Series 6. Frustrated after a long evening, writer Spencer Maguire (Steve Pemberton, with a hairdo in the style of David Lynch) gets home after learning how …
Continue readingThe Pact – The DVDfever Review – Laura Fraser – BBC drama
The Pact centres around a group of friends working at a brewery, led by Laura Fraser (Traces) as Alice, who tries to apply for the supervisor position, but boss Jack (Aneurin Barnard) is such a …
Continue readingThe Underground Railroad – The DVDfever Review – Thuso Mbedu, Joel Edgerton
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 …
Continue readingDomina – 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 …
Continue readingDanny 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 …
Continue readingWuthering 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 …
Continue readingThree 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 …
Continue readingJupiter’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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