Paddington in Peru opens in the country in question, with a flashback to when our titular lead (Ben Whishaw – This Is Going To Hurt) was a cub, and stayed with Aunt Lucy (Imelda Staunton …
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Chicken Run: Dawn Of The Nugget – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Bella Ramsey
Chicken Run: Dawn Of The Nugget comes 23 years after the original movie from 2000, which was good fun, but didn’t reach the heights of the Wallace and Gromit output. Sadly, for whatever reason, Zachary …
Continue readingThe Crown Season 6 Part 2 – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Imelda Staunton, Dominic West
The Crown Season 6 Part 2 brings the entire series to a close, understandably beginning with Prince William now at boarding school, and trying to deal with the death of his mother, Diana, in what’s …
Continue readingThe Crown Season 6 Part 1 – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Elizabeth Debicki
The Crown Season 6 Part 1 is here, and it rather works in my favour that I drifted off with Season 5 around halfway through, and only really caught up with the rest in the …
Continue readingThe Crown Season 5 – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Imelda Staunton, Elizabeth Debicki
The Crown Season 5 streams from Wednesday, and there was a lot of controversy about whether Netflix should put off showing this new season until… well, a random amount of time passes, a suggestion being …
Continue readingA Lady Of Letters – Talking Heads Series 1 Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review – Imelda Staunton
A Lady Of Letters is the first of 12 episodes based on the original Alan Bennett scripts, but with new actors. It begins with Irene Ruddock (Imelda Staunton) complaining about a crematorium before talking about …
Continue readingTrying – The DVDfever Review – Rafe Spall Apple TV+
Trying is like a pre-cursor to Sky One’s Breeders, in that while Nikki (Esther Smith) and Jason (Rafe Spall) are looking to conceive, Martin Freeman and Daisy Haggard were sick of their children and family …
Continue readingFlesh And Blood – The DVDfever Review – Russell Tovey, Stephen Rea
Flesh And Blood is a new four-part drama on ITV with the premise that someone’s lying injured on the beach, but who? Ah, there’s the rub! And no, I’m not going to tell you. That’s …
Continue readingDownton Abbey 2019 – Trailer 1 – Hugh Bonneville
Downton Abbey 2019 – The spin-off movie now has a full trailer, and the King and Queen are coming to tea. Yes, the family that gets it all for free now leeches off everyone else. …
Continue readingMaleficent: Mistress of Evil – Teaser 1 – Angelina Jolie
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil sees Angelina Jolie return as the evil Maleficent, and this has taken five years to come round, but here it is. This time, the complex relationship of Maleficent and Aurora (Elle …
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