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Ten Pound Poms got me early on, when the trailer made me giggle with everyone arriving in Australia in 1956, and Faye Marsay’s character observing, “You don’t see that in Stockport”, although it goes one …
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Tag: Daniel Brocklehurst
The Railway Children Return – The DVDfever Review – Jenny Agutter, Sheridan Smith
The Railway Children Return follows some 52 years after the 1970 movie, The Railway Children, and when first announced, it was most notable for the fact that it brings back one of the original cast …
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No Return – The DVDfever Review – ITV drama – Sheridan Smith
No Return does feel a bit like Groundhog Day. We’re only just into February, and this year, it’s the third multi-part drama we’ve had on TV in 2022 starring Sheridan Smith in the lead role, …
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Stay Close – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Cush Jumbo, James Nesbitt
Stay Close comes from Harlan Coben, who also brought us 2020’s The Stranger, an engaging, but occasionally daft, drama. However, I loved that it was set in my home town of Stockport. The basic premise …
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The Stranger – The DVDfever Review – Richard Armitage
The Stranger begins with something I never expected in a drama… scenes from my hometown of Stockport! Then there was something rather less palatable as we saw a naked man running through the woods before …
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Brassic – The DVDfever Review – Michelle Keegan
Brassic is slang for the Cockney rhyming term ‘boracic lint’, meaning ‘skint’. So, we have a comedy/drama series about a bunch of young men who want to participate in endless ‘get rich quick’ schemes which …
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In 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 …
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