One Day is a new drama series which first takes us back to one particular day: 15th July 1988 to be precise (and St Swithin’s Day, as we’re soon informed), as Dexter (Leo Woodall – …
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The Couple Next Door – The DVDfever Review – Channel 4 – Eleanor Tomlinson, Sam Heughan
The Couple Next Door is a new Channel 4 thriller which looks, from the trailer, like everyone’s up to no good. Evie (Eleanor Tomlinson – The Outlaws) and Peter (Alfred Enoch) move in to what …
Continue readingThe 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 readingIntergalactic – The DVDfever Review – Savannah Steyn, Craig Parkinson
Intergalactic is a new sci-fi drama set in the year 2143, in Commonworld, a futuristic city built next to a destroyed London. Cop Ash Harper (Savannah Steyn) is planning to move to Shanghai, but as …
Continue readingThe War Of The Worlds 2019 – The DVDfever Review – Rafe Spall
The War Of The Worlds 2019 brings the classic HG Wells tale to our screens in TV series form. The first knowledge I had of the work as the fantastic double gatefold LP from Jeff …
Continue readingColette – Trailer 1 – Keira Knightley
Colette is a film with a trailer that shows it’s getting a lot of plaudits, but… it looks dull as ditchwater. After marrying a successful Parisian writer known commonly as “Willy” (Oi! Stop sniggering at …
Continue readingUK Top 100 Music chart summary w/e June 21st 2018
In the UK Top 100 Music chart summary w/e June 21st 2018, Jess Glynne climbs from No.2 to No.1 with I’ll Be There, and it’s so repetitive and tedious, I felt my brain collapsing into …
Continue readingOrdeal By Innocence: The Complete Series – The DVDfever Review – Agatha Christie BBC drama
Ordeal By Innocence, by Agatha Christie, begins with rich matriarch Rachel Argyll (Anna Chancellor) having her mortal coil shuffled off by someone, and since it’s Agatha Christie, so the victim must be discovered by the …
Continue readingPoldark Series 2 Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review
Poldark is a drama for which I’d never previously seen an episode, either in this decade or from the ’70s, but felt I should give it a crack, and the second series opener begins with …
Continue readingPoldark Series 1 out today on DVD – Aidan Turner
Poldark Series 1 is out today on DVD starring Aidan Turner (The Hobbit Trilogy) getting bare-chested and read to do some scything. However, even in this age of equality, there were no women getting their …
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