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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Best Interests – The DVDfever Review – BBC drama – Michael Sheen, Sharon Horgan
Best Interests centres around the daughter of Andrew (Michael Sheen – Vardy V Rooney: A Courtroom Drama) and Nicci (Sharon Horgan – Together), who’s very ill, given that the doctors have assessed her as having …
Continue readingVardy V Rooney: A Courtroom Drama – The DVDfever Review – Channel 4 – Michael Sheen
Vardy V Rooney: A Courtroom Drama centres around Rebekah Vardy (Natalie Tena) and Colleen Rooney (Chanel Cresswell – Des), from the vacuous world of the ‘WAGs’, aka ‘Wives and Girlfriends’ of footballers, in this case, …
Continue readingLast Train To Christmas – The DVDfever Review – Sky Cinema – Michael Sheen
Last Train To Christmas is set entirely on a train, and begins on Christmas Eve, 1985, with the film’s opening 16:9 aspect ratio neatly changing back to 4:3. After embarking on the vehicle in question, …
Continue readingProdigal Son – The DVDfever Review – Michael Sheen
Prodigal Son is so-called because it the lead character, Malcolm Bright (Tom Payne – The Physician), is the son of jailed mass-murderer Dr. Martin Whitly (Michael Sheen – Staged), a man known as ‘The Surgeon’, …
Continue readingStaged – The DVDfever Review – David Tennant, Michael Sheen
Staged is a new series produced during the lockdown period, and which came about because both David Tennant and Michael Sheen – who both starred in 2019’s Good Omens – were meant to be appearing …
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 readingDolittle – Trailer 1 – Robert Downey Jr
Dolittle sees the titular doctor played this time by Robert Downey Jr… junior doctor? Either way, RDJr has bowed out of the Marvel universe to deal with different sorts of creatures, but is still joined …
Continue readingGood Omens Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review – David Tennant, Michael Sheen
Good Omens poses the opener that you might’ve thought that the universe began 14 billion years ago, and the Earth, 4.6bn years ago, but this series confirms that it all began on Sunday 21st October …
Continue readingSlaughterhouse Rulez on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Slaughterhouse Rulez comes across as being set at an old-time grammar boarding school, seemingly as anarchic as a St Trinians movie, but with the inference that not all of the pupils – at this mixed …
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