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Presumed Innocent brings Scott Turow’s novel, best known as the 1990 movie starring Harrison Ford, but this time with Jake Gyllenhaal as prosecution lawyer Rusty Sabich, ultimately finding himself on the wrong end of the …
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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 …
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The Little Mermaid – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Halle Bailey
The Little Mermaid is Disney’s live action (almost) version of the classic Hans Christian Anderson story, in which we learn that mermaids don’t have tears… Well, even if they did, who would see them underwater? …
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The Undoing – The DVDfever Review – Hugh Grant, Nicole Kidman – HBO / Sky Atlantic
The Undoing is a new limited series (i.e. one series only) on both HBO and Sky Atlantic with a very posh well-to-do couple for whom things are about to go South. Jonathan Fraser (Hugh Grant …
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Mary Poppins Returns – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Is it Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious?
Mary Poppins Returns is set 20 years after the 1964 original, and this time, the Banks are having more problems – especially with their bank, since while Michael Banks (Ben Whishaw) lives in the family …
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Black Earth Rising: The Complete Series – The DVDfever Review – Michaela Coel
Black Earth Rising begins with lawyer Eve Ashby (Harriet Walter) about to take on prosecuting militia leader and Hutu General Simon Nyamoya (Danny Sapani), a very controversial figure, and the case will take place at …
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Philip K Dick’s Electric Dreams Episode 1 – The Hood Maker – The DVDfever Review
Philip K Dick’s Electric Dreams begins the new 10-part series with The Hood Maker, airing on Channel 4 in the UK and Amazon in the US, and feels like their alternative to Charlie Brooker’s Black …
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Capital Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review
Capital, with Toby Jones in the lead as financial whiz Roger, made me think the title referred to money. It may, since we see property prices increasing as the months go by, but if that’s …
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