Crime is the latest ITV drama – this one premiering on Britbox, however – with a rather bland and generic title. Cop Eddie ‘Ginger’ Rogers (Gordon Kennedy) – yep, they created a nickname for a …
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The Dig – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Carey Mulligan, Ralph Fiennes
The Dig begins in 1938, in Suffolk, where Edith Pretty (Carey Mulligan, Collateral) had learned there were approximately 18 ancient burial mounds on the Sutton Hoo estate, near to her home, so she summons M …
Continue readingFortitude Season 2 Episode 5 – The DVDfever Review
Fortitude Season 2 Episode 5 is where I am this increasingly ridiculous series part ways. I have tried, but while the first series was occasionally “so bad it’s good”, this one has stumbled along like …
Continue readingFortitude Season 2 Episode 4 – The DVDfever Review
Fortitude Season 2 Episode 4 is the point where I’m still wondering why I’m bothering and I’m going to give this show one more episode after this before I consider calling it a day. Series …
Continue readingFortitude Season 2 Episode 3 – The DVDfever Review
Fortitude Season 2 Episode 3 felt like rather a filler episode where not an awful lot happened, even if what did happen was very weird. After seeing PC Ingrid’s taking Rene Lennox (okay, he’s called …
Continue readingFortitude Season 2 Episode 2 – The DVDfever Review
Fortitude Season 2 Episode 2 begins with an unknown drifter talking incoherently while staring at something in the distance… a bear… carrying something… a reindeer calf, but…. he’s got no eyes! How does he smell? …
Continue readingFortitude Season 2 Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review
Fortitude Season 2 comes two years after the first one with which I had a love/hate relationship – hardly anyone could act, hence why I dubbed it ‘Eldorado In The Arctic‘ as well as ‘Nordic …
Continue readingCafé Society – International Trailer #1 – Woody Allen
Café Society stars Jesse Eisenberg as James, a young man who arrives in Hollywood during the 1930s, hoping to work in the film industry. There, he falls in love with Theresa (Kristen Stewart), and finds …
Continue readingAn Inspector Calls (2015) – The DVDfever Review
An Inspector Calls is the second in BBC1’s current series of literary classics being brought to the screen, and follows last week’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover which was exactly like every other adaptation – except that …
Continue readingBAFTA Television 2015 nominations announced!
BAFTA Television 2015 Awards are on May 10th on BBC1. The nominations were announced today and they are as follows: Comedy and Comedy Entertainment Programme in 2015 Charlie Brooker’s Weekly Wipe – Charlie Brooker (right), …
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