Murder is Easy is based on an Agatha Christie story first published in 1939, although this adaptation is set in 1954, and with apparently cultural anthropologist Luke Fitzwilliam (David Jonsson – Industry) coming from Nigeria …
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Napoleon – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Joaquin Phoenix, Vanessa Kirby
Napoleon is the latest historical epic with made-up facts, but first, tonight we’re gonna party like it’s 1789, as we have a load of introductory text, and when it begins: “The French have become disillusioned …
Continue readingThe 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 readingLitvinenko – The DVDfever Review – ITVX drama – David Tennant
Litvinenko, centered around the murder of Alexander Litvinenko (David Tennant – Doctor Who: Edge of Reality), is another drama which begins by stating that some names have been changed, with some scenes and characters being …
Continue readingQuiz – The DVDfever Review – ITV Millionaire drama – Michael Sheen
Quiz continues ITV’s run of dramas with one-word, non-descript titles, and I wish they would make them stand out more. This one focuses on the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? scandal from 2001 when …
Continue readingGuilt – The DVDfever Review – Mark Bonnar
Guilt is what is felt by brothers Max (Mark Bonnar) and Jake (Jamie Sives) as they’re driving along after a night out, drunk and not paying attention to the road. And then, they hit an …
Continue readingSummer Of Rockets Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review – Keeley Hawes
Summer Of Rockets is a new Stephen Poliakoff drama set around the beginning of the Cold War, circa 1957/58, and while I’ve not really been able to get into his earlier works, this one did …
Continue readingApple Tree Yard Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review
Apple Tree Yard sees well-to-do scientist Yvonne Carmichael (Emily Watson) chancing an affair with the mysterious and charismatic Mark Costley (Ben Chaplin), thus jeopardising her happy marriage and two children. It begins with our female …
Continue readingPorridge (2016) – The DVDfever Review
Porridge, aka, the slop once served up for breakfast in the nick, which led to “doing porridge” being slang for serving a prison sentence, doesn’t bring Ronnie Barker’s character back into it, but attempts to …
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 …
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