Trespasses tells the tale of an illicit love between schoolteacher Cushla Lavery (Lola Petticrew) and an older man, Michael Agnew (Tom Cullen). She’s Catholic, he’s Protestant, and it’s 1975, the time during the Northern Ireland …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of PROTECTION on ITV!
Protection… Witness Protection… That’s the name of the game in this new 6-part ITV cop drama, where DI Liz Nyles (Siobhan Finneran – Apostasy) is dealing with a case where Jimmy McLennan (Kris Hitchen – …
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Anne Boleyn – The DVDfever Review – Jodie Turner-Smith – Channel 5 drama
Anne Boleyn is a new three-part Channel 5 drama starring Jodie Turner-Smith (Without Remorse) as Henry VIII’s missus. Eagle-eyed viewers will spot that Jodie is black while Anne was white. But then some people believe …
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Des – The DVDfever Review – David Tennant Dennis Nilsen drama
Des aka Dennis Nilsen (David Tennant – Staged, Deadwater Fell) – since the titular moniker is what he wants his friends to call him, is not a nice man. This review will keep anything potentially …
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The Capture – The DVDfever Review – Holliday Grainger
The Capture is a new cop drama which begins with some CCTV of a man kissing woman, then a bus goes past, and then something is seen but what is it? We’re not shown, but …
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Save Me: The Complete Series – The DVDfever Review – Lennie James
Save Me centres around Nelly (Lennie James), rather a modern day Arthur Daley, doing a bit of wheeling and dealing here and there, rather than a proper job. He has principles to a degree, but …
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Maze on DVD – The DVDfever Review
Maze is the prison, in Northern Ireland, where, in 1983, Larry Marley (Tom Vaughan-Lawlor) ends up after ten of his friends have died from hunger strike, including Bobby Sands. Marley’s plan is to break out, …
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The Truth Commissioner – The DVDfever Review – BBC – Roger Allam
The Truth Commissioner stars The Thick Of It‘s Roger Allam as Henry Stanfield, a man whose job has effectively robbed him of his family life by dominating his time, and now he’s in Belfast dealing …
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The Survivalist on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
The Survivalist stars Martin McCann as a man who’s lived alone in the woods for the past ten years and has become proficiently self-sufficient, growing vegetables like a pro on his personal farm. The economy …
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