The Responder Series 2 sees Martin Freeman (Black Panther 2: Wakanda Forever) return as embittered first responder Chris Carson, almost two-and-a-half years after the first series, so it’s good that we have a recap at …
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Bolan’s Shoes – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Timothy Spall, Leanne Best
Bolan’s Shoes, the footwear of which, makes for a rather tenuous link to give this British film more gravitas than it deserves. Siblings Jimmy (Timothy Spall – Away, The Sixth Commandment) and Penny (Leanne Best …
Continue readingDI Ray – The DVDfever Review – ITV drama – Parminder Nagra
DI Ray, not DI Voodoo Ray, sadly… that would be a cool prime-time drama. Portrayed by Parminder Nagra, she gets a shock when she witnesses a strange man running about with a knife, and not …
Continue readingThe Teacher – The DVDfever Review – Channel 5 drama – Sheridan Smith
The Teacher is the role for Sheridan Smith, who literally has to be in everything these days. At the start of January, she was in BBC1’s Four Lives, and then next week, she’s in ITV’s …
Continue readingAnne – The DVDfever Review – Maxine Peake – ITV Hillsborough drama
Anne centres around Anne Williams, played here by Maxine Peake, whose son, Kevin, died in the harrowing disaster at Hillsborough Stadium, Sheffield, on April 15th 1989, the death toll for which now stands at 97, …
Continue readingViewpoint – The DVDfever Review – Noel Clarke – FINALE PULLED FROM SCHEDULE!
Viewpoint: 2nd UPDATE 30 April 2021: The finale is now on the ITV Hub, and it’s just there for 2 days at the time of posting this. I assumed it would be seven days, but …
Continue readingHatton Garden: The Complete Series – The DVDfever Review – ITV 2019 Drama
Hatton Garden sees the story of the titular bank robbery being told for the third time, following 2017’s The Hatton Garden Job, and 2018’s King Of Thieves, with a more famous cast (and not as …
Continue readingReg (Tim Roth BBC drama) – The DVDfever Review
Reg Keys is a name I hadn’t heard before, but I was fully aware that we were taken to war in Iraq on a lie. Portrayed by Tim Roth, his son, Tom (Zac Fox), was …
Continue readingMarcella Series 1 – The DVDfever Review – Anna Friel
Marcella opens with a shot of the lead character, played by Anna Friel, in the bath, bruised and bloodied, the bathroom looking slightly cleaner than that in The Young Ones. However, this is no dream …
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