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The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim, with the last word sounding like it’s pronounced “Rim”, is set 183 years before the main The Lord of the Rings trilogy, and Warner Brothers …
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After The Flood – The DVDfever Review – ITV drama – Sophie Rundle
After The Flood is a new ITV drama which sees… a lot of rain pelting down, which means they must be filming in Manchester. Actually, this broadcast is surprisingly good timing, since in a number …
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Allelujah! – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Jennifer Saunders, Alan Bennett
Allelujah! is a film based on a 2018 Alan Bennett (Talking Heads) play, where Sister Gilpin (Jennifer Saunders – The Stranger) steers the Bethlehem Hospital with a firm hand on the tiller, brilliantly mixing in …
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Sherwood – The DVDfever Review – BBC drama – David Morrissey
Sherwood… no, it’s not another Robin Hood reboot, but actually a drama based on a true story about two killings in the Nottinghamshire mining community where the author grew up, but certain elements have been …
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Bridgerton – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Phoebe Dynevor, Regé-Jean Page
Bridgerton has been out since Christmas Day, and while period dramas aren’t normally my sort of thing, there’s been a lot of hullaballo about this one, so I thought I’d give it a whirl. The …
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Out Of Her Mind – The DVDfever Review – Sara Pascoe
Out Of Her Mind is another of those sitcoms ‘loosely based’ on the writer/creator’s own life, this time being comedian Sara Pascoe – unsurprisingly, as ‘Sara’ – talking directly to the camera, the main basis …
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Alma’s Not Normal – The DVDfever Review – Sophie Willan
Alma’s Not Normal is a new comedy, in pilot form for now, starring and written by Sophie Willan. We first meet her going into the Jobcentre and getting lost, exclaiming “It’s like the Crystal Maze …
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Cheat: The Complete Series – The DVDfever Review – Katherine Kelly
Cheat begins with University lecturer Dr Leah Dale (Katherine Kelly – Doctor Who spin-off Class) and final year student Rose (Molly Windsor – Three Girls) on opposite sites of a prison cell window, before we …
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Breathe on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Breathe tells the true story of Robin Cavendish (Andrew Garfield) and his wife, Diana (Claire Foy). Just as life is beginning for them as a married couple, with a baby on the way, he’s struck …
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The Interceptor Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review
The Interceptor is a new drama/thriller series which was described on BBC Breakfast as something we’ve never ever seen before… yet from the clips it looked like EVERYTHING we’ve seen before. Not that that’s always …
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