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This Town comes from the pen of Steven Knight, who brought us Peaky Blinders – a series I’ve still to see. Opening on Lozells Road, Birmingham in 1981, before it moves on to Falls Road, …
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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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The Beast Must Die – The DVDfever Review – Cush Jumbo, Jared Harris
The Beast Must Die is not a gripe by a bad contestant on The Chase, but is actually a new Britbox drama set on the Isle of Wight and, I understand, based on a 1938 …
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Beast on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Beast opens with local tour guide Moll (Jessie Buckley) meeting Pascal (Johnny Flynn) on a late night after a disastrous birthday in her very small town in Jersey, which saw her family take more interest …
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Daphne on DVD – The DVDfever Review
Daphne is a classic example of one of those films which really grabbed me from the trailer, below, but turned out to be considerably less than the sum of its parts. Portrayed by Emily Beecham, …
Continue readingMegan Leavey – Trailer 1 – Kate Mara
Megan Leavey, portayed by Kate Mara (The Martian, Fantastic Four), is the young marine corporal whose unique discipline and bond with her military combat dog saved many lives during their deployment in Iraq. When she …
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Rogue One: A Star Wars Story 3D – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is the first of two spin-offs to the Star Wars canon, this one placed inbetween the lacklustre Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens, and next Christmas’ Episode VIII. …
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45 Years on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
45 Years is nearly the amount of time since Kate (Charlotte Rampling) and Geoff Mercer (Tom Courtenay) have been married and they’re now preparing for their anniversary celebrations, which are just a few days away …
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Black Work Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review
Black Work shows that however long you’ve been married, there’s always going to be something that you don’t know about your better half. SPOILER ALERT: This programme is broadcast on ITV on Sunday night at …
Continue readingUtopia: the mostly superb Channel 4 drama has been cancelled
Utopia was an amazing drama when it first starting, introducing the nation to the eerie question – “Where is Jessica Hyde?” – while damaging and scooping out one of Winston Winston’s eyes, then making you …
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