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The Critic is a film I was drawn to, because Ian McKellen (Last Action Hero – yes, seriously!) – in the lead role as The Chronicle’s drama theatre critic Jimmy Erskine – is a national …
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The Responder Series 2 – The DVDfever Review – BBC drama – Martin Freeman
The Responder Series 2 sees Martin Freeman (Black Panther 2: Wakanda Forever) return as embittered first responder Chris Carson, almost two-and-a-half years after the first series, so it’s good that we have a recap at …
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Seize Them! – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Aimee Lou Wood, Nicola Coughlan
Seize Them! is the command bellowed by Queen Dagan (Aimee Lou Wood – Living) after Humble Joan (Nicola Coughlan – Big Mood) turns up with her crew to take the castle over. As such, everyone …
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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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Pure Episodes 1 and 2 – The DVDfever Review – Channel 4 OCD drama
Pure brings us Marnie (Charly Clive), and while a lot of us have some form of OCD, for the leading lady, she’s suffers from the form known as ‘Pure O’. Dom RobinsonReviewer of movies, videogames …
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The Windsors – The DVDfever Review – Channel 4 comedy
The Windsors is a spoof comedy on the Royal Family that’s long overdue and, at times, has flashes of brilliance harking back to Spitting Image in its hey-day, with plenty of appropriate gurning from Harry …
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The Dresser (2015) – The DVDfever Review
The Dresser tells the story of something of which I have zero experience – working backstage at a touring Shakespearean theatre company. In a production of King Lear, the lead actor is bordering on insanity …
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Unforgotten Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review
Unforgotten was more ‘uneven’, blending a story about bones being found under a house – not an uncommon occurence these days as housing estates are redeveloped, and in this case it was thanks to some …
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