The Forsytes opens in London, 1877, when I was knee-height to a grasshopper… Oh, actually that was *19*77, but close enough. It’s the time before Kid’n’Play, when people held house parties with the guests being …
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One Day – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Ambika Mod, Leo Woodall
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 …
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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 …
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Intergalactic – 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 …
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The 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 …
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Colette – 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 …
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Ordeal 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 …
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Poldark 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 …
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