Rivals is set in a world where everyone’s all posh and hoity-toity, opening with a couple – the male half being Rupert Campbell-Black (Alex Hassell – Violent Night) – having a bit of “how’s your …
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Wilderness – The DVDfever Review – Amazon Prime Video – Jenna Coleman
Wilderness is a new six-part drama starring Jenna Coleman (The Serpent), which begins with her opening narration, as a young woman called Liv. She tell us that she’s never felt like she’s been herself, and …
Continue readingThe Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Jim Broadbent
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry is a bit of a wordy title, but such is what happens with novels. The titular character, portrayed by Jim Broadbent (The Sea Beast), is a bit of a …
Continue readingLove Is A Stranger – Inside No.9 Series 8 Episode 4 – The DVDfever Review
Love Is A Stranger is the fourth episode of Inside No.9 Series 8. Vicky (Claire Rushbrook) lives at No.9, and trying online speed dating – which I didn’t know was a thing – first talking …
Continue readingSherwood – The DVDfever Review – BBC drama – David Morrissey
Sherwood… no, it’s not another Robin Hood reboot, but actually a drama based on a true story about two killings in the Nottinghamshire mining community where the author grew up, but certain elements have been …
Continue readingAmmonite – The DVDfever Review – Saoirse Ronan, Kate Winslet
Ammonite is set in the 1840s, and centres around standoffish fossil hunter Mary Anning (Kate Winslet – in the forthcoming Mare Of Easttown), who’s taking huge, fossilised rocks off the beach, starting with a titular …
Continue readingEnola Holmes – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Millie Bobbie Brown
Enola Holmes is the female offspring of the Sherlock family, but very tomboyish with it, despite the long hair. The film opens with a brief run-through her early life, telling us how “Enola spelt backwards …
Continue readingTemple Series 1 – The DVDfever Review – Mark Strong
Temple stars Mark Strong as surgeon Daniel Milton, whose wife, Beth (Catherine McCormack), has died and this leads him to running an operating room from underneath the Temple Underground station in London, which is a …
Continue readingDon’t Forget The Driver: The Complete Series – The DVDfever Review – Toby Jones
Don’t Forget The Driver has blazed the trail for just one thing – you don’t often get a 30-minute comedy in a cinemascope 2.35:1-style ratio. And that’s all that surprised me in this incredibly limp …
Continue readingRequiem Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review – Lydia Wilson
Requiem centres around top cellist Matilda Gray (Lydia Wilson, who fans of Star Trek Beyond will remember as Kalara, the alien who sought help from Kirk et al after telling them Idris Elba’s Krall had …
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