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The Sixth Commandment opens with the text… “This is a true story. What follows is based on extensive research, interviews and published accounts, with some scenes created for dramatic purposes” I’d never heard of this …
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Living – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Bill Nighy, Aimee Lou Wood
Living centres around a man known only by his surname for the majority of the film, Williams, played by Bill Nighy (The World’s End), and set in 1953, where every businessman wears bowler hats, all …
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Undergods – The DVDfever Review – Kate Dickie, Burn Gorman
Undergods is one of those films set in a dystopian future, in a world displayed in muted colours, and surrounded by fog as if everything’s about to end, and an environment which makes George Orwell’s …
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Grace: Dead Simple – The DVDfever Review – John Simm – ITV drama
Grace… Det Supt Roy Grace… John Simm plays the latest ITV detective, whose surname makes the entire title of the drama. He’s a troubled detective, like them all, but in his case, his wife went …
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Susan Hill’s Ghost Story – The DVDfever Review – Channel 5 drama
Susan Hill’s Ghost Story is the possibly-clumsy and non-descript title for a television adaptation of the novel, The Small Hand, beginning with antique book dealer Adam Snow (Douglas Henshall) paying a visit back to his …
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Chernobyl: The Complete Series – The DVDfever Review – Drama of the Year! – Out now on Blu-ray!
Chernobyl is a new Sky Atlantic drama which focuses on the tragedy when the Chernobyl nuclear reactor went into meltdown following the explosion of the core inside, and turned the working town of Pripyat into …
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Innocent: The Complete Series – The DVDfever Review – ITV drama
Innocent centres around David Collins (Lee Ingleby – The A Word), who is released from jail after 7 years because the jury can’t agree on this and that about the forensic evidence over whether he …
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Hard Sun Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review – Agyness Deyn
Hard Sun is another new BBC drama for a new year, and as we all look forward to see what this set of 365 days will bring, for the characters in this series, the end …
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Breaking The Waves on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Breaking The Waves follows one of Lars Von Trier‘s habits of starting with a happy scenario before tragedy quickly sneaks its way in. Here, shy, religious Bess McNeill (Emily Watson) marries laddish oil rig worker …
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