The Midwich Cuckoos is an adaptation of the John Wyndham novel, and a situation where I never saw any other version which has gone before (and I haven’t read a novel since I left school). …
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Hanna Season 1 – The DVDfever Review – Amazon Prime
Hanna reboots the 2011 Saoirse Ronan thriller – which propelled her to the fore as the 16-year-old teenage assassin, and was a pretty decent movie – in an 8-part Amazon Prime TV series, with Esme …
Continue readingTroy: Fall Of A City Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review – BBC drama
Troy: Fall Of A City sadly has nothing to do with actor Troy McClure, who you may remember from The Simpsons, which is a shame because none of this new BBC drama series was available …
Continue readingImpossible Planet – Philip K Dick’s Electric Dreams Episode 2 – The DVDfever Review
Impossible Planet is the second episode in Philip K Dick’s Electric Dreams and is set far into the future when far more is known about the universe than in our present day, opening with Brian …
Continue readingThe Night Manager – The DVDfever Review – Tom Hiddleston
The Night Manager is the first John Le Carré novel to become a TV series in more than 20 years, following 1991’s TV movie, A Murder of Quality, starring Denholm Elliott, Joss Ackland and Glenda …
Continue readingHanna – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Saoirse Ronan
Hanna: The football season is over for me (my team again hides in mid-table obscurity) so now weekends are going to be spent making sure that I catch up on the everyfilmin2011 quest. Thus, at …
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