The Way sets the scene for a potentially powerful drama, set against the backdrop of a Welsh steelworker village where strikes are about to blight the town, but then they’re necessary in a Tory era. …
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Men Up – The DVDfever Review – BBC drama – Iwan Rheon, Joanna Page
Men Up is a new BBC TV movie based on a true story, about a group of men in Wales who have trouble keeping the British end up. We open with Meurig Jenkins (Iwan Rheon …
Continue readingThe Catch – The DVDfever Review – Channel 5 drama – Jason Watkins
The Catch begins with Ed (Jason Watkins – The Man Who Killed Don Quixote) steering his fishing boat on the ocean wave, looking anxious, making his way to a dinghy which is overturned. But where …
Continue reading1899 – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Emily Beecham, Aneurin Barnard
1899 is the prequel to Gerard Depardieu’s epic war drama, 1900…. I lie. We first see Maura Franklin (Emily Beecham – Daphne, The Pursuit Of Love) being locked up in mental asylum, wondering what’s happened …
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 Personal History of David Copperfield – Trailer 1
The Personal History of David Copperfield is a film with a title that made my heart sink – ANOTHER period drama? Thankfully, not, as it comes from Armando Iannucci (In The Loop), who has directed …
Continue readingRadioactive – Teaser 1 – Rosamund Pike
Radioactive tells the story of the scientific and romantic passions of Polish scientist Marie Sklodowska-Curie (Rosamund Pike) and Pierre Curie (Sam Riley), and the reverberation of their discoveries throughout the 20th Century. Personally, I don’t …
Continue readingThe Goldfinch – Trailer 1 – Nicole Kidman
The Goldfinch centres around 12-year-old New Yorker Theo Decker (Ansel Elgort), whose life is turned upside down when his mother is killed in a terrorist attack at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and, confused, in …
Continue readingDunkirk on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Dunkirk tells the story of the evacuation of Dunkirk, which was code-named Operation Dynamo – although that wasn’t named in this film, and showed the extrication of our soldiers from Dunkirk’s beaches and harbour in …
Continue readingDunkirk – 70mm IMAX – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Dunkirk tells the story of the evacuation of Dunkirk, which was code-named Operation Dynamo – although that wasn’t named in this film, and showed the extrication of our soldiers from Dunkirk’s beaches and harbour in …
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