We Might Regret This mixes age-gap drama with a disability factor, as Abe (Darren Boyd – The Salisbury Poisonings) has left his wife, Jane (Sally Phillips – Queenie), to live with Canadian girlfriend Freya (Kyla …
Continue readingTag: Darren Boyd
The Outlaws – The DVDfever Review – Christopher Walken – BBC drama
The Outlaws is another drama pointlessly filmed in 2.39:1, rather than the 16:9 ratio for the screen on which we’re watching. First up, we meet Rani (Rhianne Barreto), a young woman who steals a jacket …
Continue readingThe Salisbury Poisonings – The DVDfever Review – Rafe Spall
The Salisbury Poisonings is a three-part drama focusing on the 2018 situation when, on March 4th of that year, former spy Sergei Skripal, along with his daughter Yulia, were found poisoned on a park bench, …
Continue readingIsolation Stories – The DVDfever Review – Eddie Marsan
Isolation Stories looks like the kind of drama we could be getting used to for the forseeable future, and it’s also been touted that the BBC’s Talking Heads series, originally devised by Alan Bennett, could …
Continue readingTrying – The DVDfever Review – Rafe Spall Apple TV+
Trying is like a pre-cursor to Sky One’s Breeders, in that while Nikki (Esther Smith) and Jason (Rafe Spall) are looking to conceive, Martin Freeman and Daisy Haggard were sick of their children and family …
Continue readingThe Personal History of David Copperfield – Trailer 1
The Personal History of David Copperfield is a film with a title that made my heart sink – ANOTHER period drama? Thankfully, not, as it comes from Armando Iannucci (In The Loop), who has directed …
Continue readingBridget Jones’ Baby – Even men will like it! – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Bridget Jones’ Baby – let’s get this right from the start. For me, that’s the title, NOT “Bridget Jones’s Baby”. Who puts the extra, redundant ‘s’ in these things? Probably the same people who say …
Continue readingLuther Series 4 Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review
Luther Series 4 began with DCI John Luther still in a dark place after losing his partner, DS Justin Ripley (Warren Brown), which led me to hope that Series 3 would be followed by a …
Continue readingLuther Series 4 Trailer – BBC One – Idris Elba
Luther, John Luther. Rather like “Bond, James Bond”. Go on, give Idris Elba the role next time! Anyhoo, in the meantime, the actor, DJ enthusiast and Sky supporter returns this Christmas in a new two-parter, …
Continue readingThe Delivery Man Series 1 Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review
The Delivery Man had a fair bit to live up to, following on from the first new episode of Newzoids, and ITV’s track record of sitcoms shows that for every The Job Lot, there are …
Continue reading