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 Reckoning – The DVDfever Review – BBC drama – Steve Coogan
The Reckoning is the four-part drama which starts Steve Coogan (This Time With Alan Partridge) as the late, disgraced DJ Jimmy Savile, given everything we now know he got up to during his life and …
Continue readingCOBRA: The Complete Series – The DVDfever Review – Robert Carlyle
COBRA begins with a plane in crisis, losing power and not sure if it’ll make it to the next airport – just one of many incidents happening around the world due to an unknown cause. …
Continue readingHome From Home Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review – Johnny Vegas
Home From Home started life as one of BBC2’s rather poor 2016 pilots, with Johnny Vegas in the lead role as Neil Hackett, father of a family who up sticks and move to the Lake …
Continue readingIn The Dark Series 1 – The DVDfever Review – BBC drama
In The Dark poses a dilemma for DI Helen Weeks (MyAnna Buring – Prey), a cop who’s pregnant, so really shouldn’t be chasing ne’er-do-wells down rainy Manchester streets (and I really felt the punch delivered …
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