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The Larkins is a reboot of The Darling Buds of May, even though no-one was crying out for one. It comes just over 30 years since they were last on our screens in the guise …
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McDonald & Dodds – The DVDfever Review – Jason Watkins
McDonald & Dodds is the latest cop series for ITV with another mismatched pairing, this time with London hotshot DCI Lauren McDonald (Tala Gouveia) arriving to put a rocket over the comparatively sleepy policing procedures …
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Dracula 2020 – The DVDfever Review – Claes Bang
Dracula 2020… okay, so it’s just Dracula, but then if you have several reviews called ‘Dracula’, it really doesn’t help in terms of Google rankings, so here we are. Anyhoo, this new series stars Claes …
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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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How to Talk to Girls at Parties on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
How to Talk to Girls at Parties has shown me one first: Hawaiian-born and Australia-raised Nicole Kidman with a Cockney accent… and shouting “We Are England!” Hmm… It’s 1977 – the year of the Queen’s …
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The Woman In White Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review – BBC drama
The Woman In White is a ghost of some sort, driving people mad, as she scares others, going about her daily business.. Walter Hartright (Ben Hardy) is an artist, or ‘drawing master’ as it says …
Continue readingHow to Talk to Girls at Parties – Trailer 1 – Elle Fanning
How to Talk to Girls at Parties, from John Cameron Mitchell, director of the acclaimed Hedwig and the Angry Inch, takes us to an exotic and unusual world: suburban London in the late 70s. Under …
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Requiem Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review – Lydia Wilson
Requiem centres around top cellist Matilda Gray (Lydia Wilson, who fans of Star Trek Beyond will remember as Kalara, the alien who sought help from Kirk et al after telling them Idris Elba’s Krall had …
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Crazy Diamond – Philip K Dick’s Electric Dreams Episode 4 – The DVDfever Review
Crazy Diamond is the fourth episode of Philip K Dick’s Electric Dreams, although it was originally scheduled to be the fifth, as it’s swapped places with next week’s Real Life. Not quite sure why as, …
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Bridget Jones’ Baby – Even men will like it! – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Bridget Jones’ Baby – let’s get this right from the start. For me, that’s the title, NOT “Bridget Jones’s Baby”. Who puts the extra, redundant ‘s’ in these things? Probably the same people who say …
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