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Gunpowder is centred around the 1605 Gunpowder plot, as Guy Fawkes wants to blow up the Houses of Parliament. However, this three-parter begins in 1603, at which point Elizabeth I has died, and James I …
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Damned Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review – Jo Brand comedy
Damned is a new sitcom about social workers who are damned if they do, and damned if they don’t. In reality, they can never get a break. Too much is expected from them, and the …
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Red Dwarf XI Episode 1 – Twentica – The DVDfever Review
Red Dwarf XI is here, and the unexpected juggernaut shows no sign of stopping. However, for me, I loved series 1-3 – and actually went to see the first episode of the latter, Backwards, filmed …
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Hancock’s Half Hour – Lost Sitcoms – The DVDfever Review
Hancock’s Half Hour is another in the Lost Sitcoms three-parter, following last week’s Till Death Do Us Part. The recreated episode, this time, is The New Neighbour, where Hancock (Kevin McNally) and John (Kevin Eldon) …
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Brian Pern: The Complete Series 1-3 on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Brian Pern is the prog-rock brainchild of Rhys Thomas OBE and The Fast Show‘s Simon Day, and this boxset takes in all three series – The Life of Rock, A Life in Rock and 45 …
Continue readingGame of Thrones Season 6 – HBO Red Band Trailer
Game of Thrones Season 6 is unleashed next month and the trailer has now been released. The first episode in the new season will be directed by Jeremy Podeswa, who also directs the second episode, …
Continue readingDanger Mouse – new 2015 Series Teaser – CBBC
Danger Mouse was one of my favourite cartoons back in the early 80s when I was a child, and now he’s back for a new generation. Back then, he was voiced by David Jason with …
Continue readingSet Fire to the Stars Official Trailer – Elijah Wood
Set Fire to the Stars is a film shot in black-and-white, starring Elijah Wood as John M Brinnin, an aspiring poet in 1950s New York, who has his ordered world shaken when he embarks on …
Continue readingFour Lions on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Four Lions, the feature-length directorial debut for Chris Morris (here listed as Christopher Morris), takes a sideways look at suicide bombers supposedly focussing on being part of the mujahideen, i.e. terrorists, and wanting to blow …
Continue readingJam: The Complete Series on DVD – Chris Morris – The DVDfever Review
Jam was Chris Morris‘ TV version, to a point, of his Radio 1 show “Blue Jam”, something which I tried to listen to but could never get into. Back then I found TV a more …
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