Better Man shows us Robbie Williams as he sees himself, a CGI monkey, because he never felt like he’d fully evolved. The film starts off in 1982, singing along to Frank Sinatra on the TV …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of GAVIN AND STACEY: THE FINALE!
Gavin And Stacey: The Finale is nothing I’d been rushing to look forward to, but based upon the advertising, you’d think it was the second coming. For me, the first season was funny, but after …
Continue readingPlodding On – Inside No.9 Series 9 Episode 6 – The DVDfever Review
Plodding On is the sixth and final episode of Inside No.9 Series 9, and the last EVER episode! Before this aired, I was hoping we’d finally get the Robin Askwith bus conductor episode which they …
Continue readingRules of the Game – The DVDfever Review – BBC drama – Maxine Peake
Rules of the Game is a new four-part drama set at Fly, a sportswear company, and run by Sam Thompson (Maxine Peake – Anne), who we first see sat in the back of an ambulance, …
Continue readingPandemonium – The DVDfever Review – Alison Steadman
Pandemonium is a one-off sitcom episode in a lockdown setting… and no doubt, if it’s a hit, it’ll return for a full series. However, as the family is filmed, from January 2020 onwards, beginning with …
Continue readingLife (2020) – The DVDfever Review – Alison Steadman, Peter Davison
Life 2020 is… called Life, but in the world of website SEO, too many titles with the same name doesn’t help, and there are so many films and TV series called this. Can’t they think …
Continue readingGavin And Stacey Christmas Special 2019 – The DVDfever Review
Gavin And Stacey Christmas Special 2019 is here and they’re still going back and forth to Wales when they would’ve long since moved in at one place either way. Or maybe they did and I …
Continue readingCare – The DVDfever Review – Sheridan Smith, Alison Steadman
Care is a new Jimmy McGovern drama which, for me, has come at a depressingly poignant time. We know that strokes can hit someone – mostly in their later years, but sometimes also in a …
Continue readingButterfly: The Complete Series – The DVDfever Review – Anna Friel
Butterfly is based around Max (Callum Booth-Ford), an eleven-year-old boy, who realises he’s not straight, nor gay, but transgender, choosing to dress up as a girl at home. This certainly makes for an interesting and …
Continue readingHold The Sunset Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review – John Cleese
Hold The Sunset is every travesty I expected, and is an easy wicket for its leads, Alison Steadman, John Cleese and Jason Watkins. Steadman plays Edith, a retired widow who finds recycling difficult – just …
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