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Paddington in Peru opens in the country in question, with a flashback to when our titular lead (Ben Whishaw – This Is Going To Hurt) was a cub, and stayed with Aunt Lucy (Imelda Staunton …
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Red Eye – The DVDfever Review – ITV drama – Jing Lusi
Red Eye refers to a type of plane journey, but almost starts with Richard Armitage, as Dr Matthew Nolan, having rather red eyes, as he causes consternation in Beijing, and then crashes is car in …
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Back Series 2 – The DVDfever Review – David Mitchell, Robert Webb
Back Series 2 is here, and it’s been a while since series 1 aired, but at the time, Andrew (Robert Webb) had ingratiated himself with everyone at the John Barleycorn pub, and pushing Stephen’s (David …
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Semi-Detached – The DVDfever Review – Lee Mack
Semi-Detached is normally the type of a house, but in this case, it’s the name of a new Lee Mack sitcom, and thankfully, not one that canned ‘audience’ laughter like the largely awful Not Going …
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Holmes And Watson on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Holmes And Watson: When I first saw the trailer for this, it looked pretty terrible. I’m not a Will Ferrell-does-comedy fan which doesn’t help, but John C Reilly is usually worth a watch. However, as …
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Beast on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Beast opens with local tour guide Moll (Jessie Buckley) meeting Pascal (Johnny Flynn) on a late night after a disastrous birthday in her very small town in Jersey, which saw her family take more interest …
Continue readingThe Mercy – Trailer 1 – Colin Firth
The Mercy looks like one of those movies where the lead character really should be played by someone younger, as Colin Firth takes the role of yachtsman Donald Crowhurst, who made a disastrous attempt to …
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Back Series 1 – The DVDfever Review – Mitchell and Webb
Back is the sort of thing I like in TV and films – when actors/writers, who have brought you something you’ve enjoyed, get back together for something new. You know they can’t retread old ground …
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Liar Series 1 – The DVDfever Review – Joanne Froggatt
Liar centres around a couple going on a date and a particular situation allegedly happening, but one of them is the titular liar, but who? (Of course, I’m not saying, as that would rather defeat …
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We The Jury – The DVDfever Review – BBC Sitcom pilot
We The Jury is a sitcom pilot which begins with the unlikely premise that William’s (Ed Easton) life long dream is to be a member of a jury (sorry, I should’ve prepared you earlier to …
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