The Day Of The Jackal (2024) is a slightly more modern take on the Frederick Forsyth novel, although while this TV series version often does have a stylish look to it as if it was …
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Bad Sisters – The DVDfever Review – Sharon Horgan – Apple TV+
Bad Sisters sees a clan of female siblings joining together as they do, but this time, for a funeral. Grace (Anne-Marie Duff – The Salisbury Poisonings) is making sandwiches for the wake, in respect of …
Continue readingAll The Old Knives – The DVDfever Review – Amazon Prime Video – Chris Pine
All The Old Knives begins in 2012, where Flight 127 is grounded on the tarmac at the airport, because terrorists have taken over the plane, and are threatening to kill everyone on it, in addition …
Continue readingStephen – The DVDfever Review – Steve Coogan – ITV drama
Stephen follows on from 1999’s movie-length The Murder of Stephen Lawrence, which I haven’t seen in full, but I am obviously aware of all the events that happened. This three-part series is set in 2006, …
Continue readingThe Queen’s Gambit – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Anya Taylor-Joy
The Queen’s Gambit centres around child chess prodigy Beth and, yes, the main star of this is Anya Taylor-Joy (Split), but in the first episode, she appears only at the start in a brief scene …
Continue readingOn Chesil Beach – Trailer 1 – Saoirse Ronan
On Chesil Beach is a period drama, adapted by Ian McEwan from his bestselling novel, starring Saoirse Ronan and Billy Howle as a young couple from drastically different backgrounds, having met during the summer of …
Continue readingGrand Designs of the 3rd Kind – The DVDfever Review – Radio 4 Play
Grand Designs of the 3rd Kind is a Radio 4 play from Toby Hadoke (The Dad Who Fell To Earth) which I meant to review at the time of airing and centres around a couple …
Continue readingFortitude Episode 10 – The DVDfever Review
Fortitude Episode 10 begins with Henry enjoying the only thing you can enjoy about this dire series – the snowy hilltops on a clear day, as he listens to his old-fangled Sony Walkman. Lorcan Cranitch …
Continue readingFortitude Episode 8 – The DVDfever Review
Fortitude Episode 8 begins in the aftermath of Shirley vomiting into her Mum’s stomach, and she’s now outside… in the FREEZING cold, barefoot and bloodstained. Whatever she’s been doing in the interim, it’s happened offscreen, …
Continue readingFortitude Episode 6 – The DVDfever Review
Fortitude Episode 6 starts with a flashback, jumping a few episodes back to when Frank was having it away with Elena. Jules is seen heading out without a hat on, and is chanced upon by …
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