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 …
Continue readingThe 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, …
Continue readingWhite 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 …
Continue readingMary 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 …
Continue readingThe 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 …
Continue readingLies 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 …
Continue readingYoung 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 …
Continue readingNew 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 …
Continue readingNew Blood Series 1 Case 1 (Episodes 1-3) – The DVDfever Review
New Blood. Some old ideas. But it all balances out as a show worth watching. Mark Strepan (as Serious Fraud Officer Stefan Kowolski) and Ben Tavassoli (as pavement-plodder-donut-scoffer-turned-budding detective Rash Sayyad) are new to these …
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