Hijack is centered around a commercial plane with passengers wanting to get from Dubai back to England, which gets… yes, hijacked. This seven-part drama is told in real time, so the opener does start to …
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Litvinenko – 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 readingIntergalactic – The DVDfever Review – Savannah Steyn, Craig Parkinson
Intergalactic is a new sci-fi drama set in the year 2143, in Commonworld, a futuristic city built next to a destroyed London. Cop Ash Harper (Savannah Steyn) is planning to move to Shanghai, but as …
Continue readingCleaning Up – The DVDfever Review – Sheridan Smith
Cleaning Up sees ITV kicking off the new drama year with the reliable Sheridan Smith as Sam, a single parter with a grumpy ex. She’s stuck in a horrible cleaning job with an over-demanding boss, …
Continue readingHappy New Year, Colin Burstead – The DVDfever Review
Happy New Year, Colin Burstead comes from Ben Wheatley who usually provides us rather off-the-wall movies such as Free Fire, Sightseers and A Field In England, so there’s always something going on, it’s almost always …
Continue readingKing Gary – The DVDfever Review – Tom Davis
King Gary is one of those sitcoms where a TV channel has a star for which they want to find the perfect vehicle, and so they come up with any old tired cliche to see …
Continue readingIn Darkness – Trailer 1 – Natalie Dormer
In Darkness centres around blind musician Sofia (Natalie Dormer), who hears a murder committed in the apartment upstairs from her’s, which sends her down a dark path into London’s gritty criminal underworld. It looks like …
Continue readingUnspeakable – The DVDfever Review – Channel 4 drama
Unspeakable centres around Jo (Indira Varma) and her 11-year-old daughter Katie (Nina Sorrentino), who’s becoming increasingly distant, soon followed by Jo receiving a text message from someone unknown, who claims her nurse boyfriend, Danny (Luke …
Continue readingHigh-Rise on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
High-Rise is classed as one of those ‘unfilmable novels’, although I don’t read books, probably having been put off early in life by being given Duncton Wood to read while I was in hospital. It …
Continue readingHumans Episode 2 trailer – Sunday 9pm on Channel 4
Humans Episode 2 continues the eight-part series about synthetic humans and the questionable belief about them being a benefit to our lives, and Laura (Katharine Parkinson) feels increasingly threatened by the presence of Anita (Gemma …
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