Lord Of The Flies comes to BBC1 as a Sunday night primetime epic, and while I’ve never seen any previous adaptation of this, nor read the novel, I instantly knew certain nonsense, as we see …
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Tag: Jack Thorne
My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of THE HACK on ITV!
The Hack brings us David Tennant (The Thursday Murder Club) as journalist Nick Davies, who introduced to us the story of the 2008 phone hacking scandal from the News of The World, which even included …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of ADOLESCENCE on NETFLIX!
Adolescence opens with the explosive scene of an armed police unit bashing their way into the home of 13-year-old Jamie Miller (Owen Cooper), and oh, what a mess as they stop about the inside of …
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Best Interests – The DVDfever Review – BBC drama – Michael Sheen, Sharon Horgan
Best Interests centres around the daughter of Andrew (Michael Sheen – Vardy V Rooney: A Courtroom Drama) and Nicci (Sharon Horgan – Together), who’s very ill, given that the doctors have assessed her as having …
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Help – The DVDfever Review – Channel 4 – Jodie Comer, Stephen Graham
Help is a look at how the social care system in the UK had to adjust to the hell we were all put through as a result of the COVID19 virus which reached our shores …
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Enola Holmes – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Millie Bobbie Brown
Enola Holmes is the female offspring of the Sherlock family, but very tomboyish with it, despite the long hair. The film opens with a brief run-through her early life, telling us how “Enola spelt backwards …
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The Eddy – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Damien Chazelle
The Eddy is a French musical drama, and when I first heard of this, I had shockwaves of horror go through me as if I was about to witness the return of Fame. However, no …
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His Dark Materials – The DVDfever Review – James McAvoy
His Dark Materials is the Philip Pullman trilogy of novels which I have never read, nor did I see The Golden Compass, the 2007 movie made with the intention to kickstart a whole trilogy, but …
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The Accident – The DVDfever Review – Sarah Lancashire
The Accident begins with an unexpected – but amusing – scene as Polly Bevan (Sarah Lancashire – Kiri) finds 15-year-old daughter Leona (Jade Croot) in bed with a lad who’s far too old for her, …
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Radioactive – Teaser 1 – Rosamund Pike
Radioactive tells the story of the scientific and romantic passions of Polish scientist Marie Sklodowska-Curie (Rosamund Pike) and Pierre Curie (Sam Riley), and the reverberation of their discoveries throughout the 20th Century. Personally, I don’t …
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