This City Is Ours sees crime boss Ronnie Phelan (Sean Bean – Time) wanting to retire, whilst passing on the reins to Michael Kavanagh (James Nelson-Joyce, who attached himself to the lead weight that was …
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Insomnia – The DVDfever Review – Paramount+ – Vicky McClure
Insomnia presents us with high-flying lawyer Emma Averill (Vicky McClure – Line Of Duty) in the unenviable position once described by Faithless as “I can’t get no sleep“, which meant that he could sleep quite …
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G’Wed – The DVDfever Review – ITVX comedy – Dylan Thomas Smith, Jake Kenny-Byrne
G’Wed or, in English, “Go ahead“. In this, Christopher (Jake Kenny-Byrne) is the posh kid having to live on a council estate with his grandma after his mum passed away, thus by dropping his social …
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Bolan’s Shoes – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Timothy Spall, Leanne Best
Bolan’s Shoes, the footwear of which, makes for a rather tenuous link to give this British film more gravitas than it deserves. Siblings Jimmy (Timothy Spall – Away, The Sixth Commandment) and Penny (Leanne Best …
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A Town Called Malice – The DVDfever Review – Sky Showcase – Jason Flemyng
A Town Called Malice takes us back to the ’80s – the best ever decade – where Gene Lord (Jack Rowan – Adulting: On The Edge) and Cindy Carter (Tahirah Sharif – The Tower) chatting …
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The Walk-In – The DVDfever Review – ITV drama – Stephen Graham
The Walk-In begins with a far-right lunatic man walking into a store with a knife, shouting “White Power!” and attacks anyone for whom he doesn’t like their colour. Based on the CCTV footage, he’s understood …
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Compulsion – The DVDfever Review – Channel 5 drama – Leanne Best
Compulsion is a new four-part drama for Channel 5. Yes, the second in two weeks – they don’t normally come this thick and fast! Unless they want to rid our minds of that ridiculous finale …
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Four Lives – The DVDfever Review – BBC drama – Sheridan Smith
Four Lives is based on a true story, and stars the omnipresent Sheridan Smith as Sarah Sak, mother to Anthony Walgate (Tim Preston), a young fashion designer who, in 2014, tells his best friend, China, …
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Young Wallander – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Adam Pålsson
Young Wallander is a new Netflix series which returns to the classic Swedish drama, with the character this time played by Adam Pålsson, looking at what the Swedish detective’s life could’ve been like when he …
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Isolation Stories – The DVDfever Review – Eddie Marsan
Isolation Stories looks like the kind of drama we could be getting used to for the forseeable future, and it’s also been touted that the BBC’s Talking Heads series, originally devised by Alan Bennett, could …
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