The Choral reunites director Nicholas Hytner with national treasure Alan Bennett, after their 2015 film, The Old Lady and the Van, and three episodes of the 2020 Talking Heads revival, An Ordinary Woman, Bed Among …
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The Full Monty (2023) – The DVDfever Review – Disney+ – Robert Carlyle
The Full Monty (2023) reunites the original cast to see what happened to them all, 26 years later. Back then, it was a low-budget 91-minute film which led to the group performing a striptease to …
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The Rig – The DVDfever Review – Prime Video – Martin Compston
The Rig is a new Prime Video series, and I don’t know much much water seems to ‘fart’ as gas escapes to the surface, but that happens in the opening of this six-parter. It’s a …
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The Salisbury Poisonings – The DVDfever Review – Rafe Spall
The Salisbury Poisonings is a three-part drama focusing on the 2018 situation when, on March 4th of that year, former spy Sergei Skripal, along with his daughter Yulia, were found poisoned on a park bench, …
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White House Farm – The DVDfever Review – Stephen Graham
White House Farm is a new six-part ITV drama which starts the new year by bringing us the doom and gloom of a mass murder, this time based on the true story of what happened …
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Mary Poppins Returns – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Is it Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious?
Mary Poppins Returns is set 20 years after the 1964 original, and this time, the Banks are having more problems – especially with their bank, since while Michael Banks (Ben Whishaw) lives in the family …
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The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos – Doctor Who Series 11 Episode 10 – The DVDfever Review
The Battle For Billy Bollocks…, I mean, The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos, is the series finale for Doctor Who Series 11, and before The Doctor and the Scooby Doo gang appear, the episode begins …
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Lies We Tell – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Gabriel Byrne
Lies We Tell starts off really well, even though I wasn’t aiming for poetry in my first line. Gabriel Byrne takes the lead as Donald, the driver to rich old man Demi (Harvey Keitel), who …
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Young Hyacinth (2016) – The DVDfever Review
Young Hyacinth, with Kerry Howard in the lead role as Mrs Bucket-to-be, is a cleaner, who we see working for the ever-at-odds couple Dulcie (Debra Stephenson) and Claude (Tony Gardner), with him oddly calling his …
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New Blood Case 2 Series 1 (Episodes 4-5) – The DVDfever Review
New Blood Case 2 centres around the mysterious death on a building site where, to us viewers there’s no mystery – we know what happened from the start, but the cops have to figure it …
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