The Outrun is effectively a dramatised biography for novelist and co-screenwriter Amy Liptrot, and her yoyo-ing in and out of alcoholism in real life, such as showing Rona (Saoirse Ronan – See How They Run) …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of LUDWIG on BBC1!
Ludwig – aka John Taylor (David Mitchell – Migration 3D), is an introvert who does all kinds of puzzles, crosswords, logic puzzles, sudoku et al. Yep, a massive nerd. He’s basically Peep Show‘s Mark Corrigan …
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Boiling Point (2023) – The DVDfever Review – BBC drama – Stephen Graham
Boiling Point (2023) follows on from the 2021 movie, which hasn’t yet aired on regular telly – the fact of which does seem rather an odd mis-step, but if you have Netflix, you can see …
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Boiling Point on Blu-ray Limited Edition – The DVDfever Review – Stephen Graham
Boiling Point takes in a Christmas-time service at a busy restaurant which deals with posh nosh, and on Mad Friday, which is the Friday before the big day. One point of interest for me, is …
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Big Boys – The DVDfever Review – Channel 4 – Jon Pointing, Dylan Llewellyn
Big Boys has a rather wordy opening scene (in fact, most of the episode), telling us how in September 2011, Jack’s (Dylan Llewellyn) Dad had died at the age of 56, and “he was the …
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Villain on DVD – The DVDfever Review – Craig Fairbrass
Villain is a rare thing in cinema these days – an 18-certificate. Too many studios steer away from it, sometimes reducing violence and other scenes in a bid to get a 15-certificate, even if it …
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Mary Queen Of Scots on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Mary Queen Of Scots begins with the premise: “Mary Queen Of Scots was born a Catholic. As Protestants fight to control Scotland, the infant Mary is sent to Catholic France. At 15, she marries the …
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