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 …
Continue readingThe 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 …
Continue readingSave 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 …
Continue readingMaze 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, …
Continue readingThe 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 …
Continue readingThe 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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