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Out There brings us Martin Clunes (The Acid House) as Nathan Williams, a Welsh farmer in what I thought was going to turn into the Tony Martin situation, a farmer who shot and killed intruder …
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The Way – The DVDfever Review – BBC drama – Michael Sheen
The Way sets the scene for a potentially powerful drama, set against the backdrop of a Welsh steelworker village where strikes are about to blight the town, but then they’re necessary in a Tory era. …
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Men Up – The DVDfever Review – BBC drama – Iwan Rheon, Joanna Page
Men Up is a new BBC TV movie based on a true story, about a group of men in Wales who have trouble keeping the British end up. We open with Meurig Jenkins (Iwan Rheon …
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Bodies – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Stephen Graham
Bodies is a new 8-part drama where a dead body is found in four different timelines, but it’s actually the same body! Starting in 2023, cop Shahara Hasan (Amaka Okafor – Grace) is on the …
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The Reckoning – The DVDfever Review – BBC drama – Steve Coogan
The Reckoning is the four-part drama which starts Steve Coogan (This Time With Alan Partridge) as the late, disgraced DJ Jimmy Savile, given everything we now know he got up to during his life and …
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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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The Pact – The DVDfever Review – Laura Fraser – BBC drama
The Pact centres around a group of friends working at a brewery, led by Laura Fraser (Traces) as Alice, who tries to apply for the supervisor position, but boss Jack (Aneurin Barnard) is such a …
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Rebecca – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Lily James, Armie Hammer
Rebecca is a new version of the 1940s Hitchcock movie (okay, technically, the 1938 Daphne du Maurier novel), and I wouldn’t have thought of Ben Wheatley as someone making a remake of such a film, …
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The Third Day – The DVDfever Review – Jude Law, Naomie Harris
The Third Day begins with Sam (Jude Law), taking some time out from life for personal reasons that show he’s suffered a great loss, interrupted only to talk to his wife on the phone about …
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The Accident – The DVDfever Review – Sarah Lancashire
The Accident begins with an unexpected – but amusing – scene as Polly Bevan (Sarah Lancashire – Kiri) finds 15-year-old daughter Leona (Jade Croot) in bed with a lad who’s far too old for her, …
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