CTRL ALT ESC is the fourth episode of Inside No.9 Series 9. This episode sees a family of four, led by Jason (Steve Pemberton) and Lynne (Katherine Kelly – The Long Shadow), going into an …
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See How They Run – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Sam Rockwell, Saoirse Ronan
See How They Run refers to mice, and opens with a 1953 West End performance of The Mousetrap, the Agatha Christie play which I’ve not seen, and I don’t think it’s ever been made into …
Continue readingThe Courier – The DVDfever Review – Benedict Cumberbatch
The Courier begins on August 12th, 1960, a time for Nikita Khrushchev, and following a timeline which leads into and past the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. Col. Oleg Vladimirovich Penkovsky (Merab Ninidze), aka Codename: Ironbark, …
Continue readingFlowers Episodes 1 and 2 – The DVDfever Review
Flowers is the surname for the family who get their money’s worth out of the word “dysfunctional”. Deborah (Olivia Colman) and Maurice (Julian Barratt) are a couple at the end of their tether, where things …
Continue readingJekyll and Hyde Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review
Jekyll and Hyde was first announced by the babbling continuity announcer with “contains some violence and scenes that young children might find upsetting”, so it’s going for the Doctor Who audience, then, although older viewers …
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