Government Cheese sees Hampton Chambers (David Oyelowo – The Book Of Clarence) getting out of jail, the crime for which either we weren’t told, or I was beaten into a state of ennui during the …
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The Book of Clarence – The DVDfever Cinema Review – LaKeith Stanfield
The Book of Clarence aims to be a religious satire, in which Clarence (LaKeith Stanfield – Uncut Gems) – soon after, also playing his twin brother, Thomas – falls foul to Jedediah the Terrible (Eric …
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Role Play – The DVDfever Review – Amazon Prime Video – Kaley Cuoco
Role Play is a highly-improbable comedy about a Suzie Homemaker-type – Kaley Cuoco (A Million Ways To Die In The West) as Emma Brackett – who’s kept a long-term secret from her husband, Dave (David …
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Lawmen: Bass Reeves – The DVDfever Review – Paramount+ – David Oyelowo
Lawmen: Bass Reeves stars David Oyelowo (See How They Run) in the titular role of the real-life man who later became the first black Deputy US Marshal. It’s 1862, the time of the American Civil …
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Silo – The DVDfever Review – Apple TV+ – Rebecca Ferguson
Silo is an Apple TV+ adaption of a novel set in a post-apocalyptic world where the last 10,000 remaining people live. No-one knows why they’re down there, or who created the Silo, because their records …
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See How They Run – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Sam Rockwell, Saoirse Ronan
See How They Run refers to mice, and opens with a 1953 West End performance of The Mousetrap, the Agatha Christie play which I’ve not seen, and I don’t think it’s ever been made into …
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The Girl Before – The DVDfever Review – Gugu Mbatha-Raw – BBC drama
The Girl Before begins with Emma (Jessica Plummer) moving into a minimalist house with Simon (Ben Hardy), but while the building would be Kevin McCloud from Grand Designs‘ wet dream, there’s a number of catches …
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Chaos Walking on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review – Tom Holland, Daisy Ridley
Chaos Walking is set on a different planet, New World, 2257 AD. Earth has been abandoned because everyone left behind David Attenborough, Brian Cox and Greta Thunberg after they kept blabbering about the environment, and …
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The Midnight Sky – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – George Clooney, Felicity Jones
The Midnight Sky begins observing Augustine (George Clooney – Return of the Killer Tomatoes… yes, seriously!), at the Barbeau Observatory in The Arctic Circle, where we see him sat down, eating lunch on his own …
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Prince William: A Planet for Us All – The DVDfever Review – ITV documentary
Prince William: A Planet for Us All shows the man who’s the next in line to the throne, claiming he can take the right steps to save the planet, even though the Royal Family and …
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