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, …
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Domina – The DVDfever Review – Nadia Parkes – ‘Game of Romes’
Domina tells the story of Livia Drusilla (starting as Nadia Parkes, before moving on to Kasia Smutniak), who in an opening voiceover tells us she’s killed many people, and that the first rule of power …
Continue readingW1A Series 3 Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review
W1A enters its third series, so is doing brilliantly well, given that it was spawned from the two-series Twenty Twelve, which did for the London Olympics what The Thick Of It did for politics. That …
Continue readingIn The Dark Series 1 – The DVDfever Review – BBC drama
In The Dark poses a dilemma for DI Helen Weeks (MyAnna Buring – Prey), a cop who’s pregnant, so really shouldn’t be chasing ne’er-do-wells down rainy Manchester streets (and I really felt the punch delivered …
Continue readingFrom Darkness Episode 2 Trailer – Anne-Marie Duff
From Darkness Episode 2 will see that the discovery of a new victim carries a haunting message for Claire Church (Anne-Marie Duff). Episode 1 has just finished, and a review will be online shortly, but …
Continue readingFrom Darkness – Trailer for new BBC1 Anne-Marie Duff drama
From Darkness is a new psychological crime drama starring Shameless‘ Anne-Marie Duff, following a submission to the BBC Writersroom, which is written by Katie Baxendale (Sugar Rush) and directed by Dominic Leclerc (Call The Midwife, …
Continue readingThe Go-Between (2015) – The DVDfever Review
The Go-Between is set in Norfolk, 1900, but begins in 1950 with the elderly Leo Colston (Jim Broadbent) lamenting in bucketfully. He wails (in his narration), “The past is a foreign country. They do things …
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