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The Doll Factory centres around a young woman named Iris (Esme Creed-Miles) who, with her twin-sister Rose (Mirren Mack) – who suffered from smallpox at the age of 16, are painting the faces of dolls …
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Trigger Point – The DVDfever Review – ITV drama – Vicky McClure
Trigger Point sees Vicky McClure in a new cop drama – following six seasons of Line of Duty, along with Adrian Lester as Terry Nutkins…, sorry, Joel Nutkins. I’m a child of the ’80s, I …
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Bridgerton – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Phoebe Dynevor, Regé-Jean Page
Bridgerton has been out since Christmas Day, and while period dramas aren’t normally my sort of thing, there’s been a lot of hullaballo about this one, so I thought I’d give it a whirl. The …
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Feel Good – The DVDfever Review – Mae Martin, Lisa Kudrow
Feel Good begins with comedienne Mae (Mae Martin) going into the Frog and Bucket club in Manchester, just before her slot, and it’s a very high stage to walk onto. I know that from when …
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Bodyguard Series 1 – The DVDfever Review – Richard Madden
Bodyguard begins with Afghanistan war veteran cop David Budd (Richard Madden) tries to play “spot the terrorist” on a train, and he quickly makes himself the ‘Liam Neeson’ of the piece. Before getting into more …
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Requiem Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review – Lydia Wilson
Requiem centres around top cellist Matilda Gray (Lydia Wilson, who fans of Star Trek Beyond will remember as Kalara, the alien who sought help from Kirk et al after telling them Idris Elba’s Krall had …
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Porridge (2016) – The DVDfever Review
Porridge, aka, the slop once served up for breakfast in the nick, which led to “doing porridge” being slang for serving a prison sentence, doesn’t bring Ronnie Barker’s character back into it, but attempts to …
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Brief Encounters Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review
Brief Encounters summarises the story of Jacqueline Gold, for ITV-friendly audiences, about how she started a business selling exotic lingerie and ‘marital aids’ at parties within the homes of her friends, under the Ann Summers …
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Scott and Bailey Series 5 – The DVDfever Review
Scott and Bailey is a drama I’d never seen before, but I get that the two leads – Rachel Bailey (Suranne Jones), now an acting Detective Inspector, and Janet Scott (Lesley Sharp) – have a …
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Pride And Prejudice And Zombies – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Pride And Prejudice And Zombies started off okay. The title tells you everything you need to know and the movie sets the scene with an opening monologue from a posh-sounding Lily James as the post …
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