The Children Act is a film that looks very well-intentioned, and with some great names in the cast, but it looks extremely dull. As her marriage to Jack (Stanley Tucci) flounders, eminent High Court judge …
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A Very English Scandal: The Complete Series – The DVDfever Review – Hugh Grant
A Very English Scandal centres around the late Jeremy Thorpe (Hugh Grant), an MP who became the leader of the Liberal Party, but – starting in 1965 and with the story going back to 1961 …
Continue readingHold The Sunset Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review – John Cleese
Hold The Sunset is every travesty I expected, and is an easy wicket for its leads, Alison Steadman, John Cleese and Jason Watkins. Steadman plays Edith, a retired widow who finds recycling difficult – just …
Continue readingW1A Series 3 Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review
W1A enters its third series, so is doing brilliantly well, given that it was spawned from the two-series Twenty Twelve, which did for the London Olympics what The Thick Of It did for politics. That …
Continue readingLine Of Duty Series 4 – out on DVD on May 8th
Line Of Duty Series 4 was back with a bang tonight, and Series 4 comes to DVD on May 8th from Acorn Media International! The critically-acclaimed hit crime drama, from renowned writer Jed Mercurio moves …
Continue readingLine Of Duty Series 4 Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review
Line Of Duty Series 4 started with a bang and didn’t let up – literally, as Polish waitress Hana (Gaite Jansen) was run over, kidnapped, then trapped in a house rigged to explode in flames… …
Continue readingThe Bill – Inside No.9 Series 3 Episode 2 – The DVDfever Review
The Bill is the second episode of series 3 of Inside No.9, and if that has you wondering where the first episode went, well, that was the Christmas one. As always, the story takes place …
Continue readingAre You Being Served? (2016) – The DVDfever Review
Are You Being Served? is one of the sitcoms being revived for a one-off special by the BBC, and ran for an – unprecedented by today’s standards – ten series from 1972 to 1985, whereas …
Continue readingFriday Night Dinner Series 4 Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review
Friday Night Dinner returns for a fourth series with no sign of slowing down with Robert Popper’s quickfire rate of gags. Around this point, you’d expect the average sitcom to have long spent its best, …
Continue readingLove, Nina Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review
Love, Nina begins with us first seeing the titular character walking barefoot, which she does constantly… because she’s quirky. However, there’s no way anyone would do that normally, given all the crap on the ground. …
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