Love Rat sees Emma (Sally Lindsay – Cold Call, The Madame Blanc Mysteries) and Pete (Neil Morrissey) having split up, him looking like he’s just nipped off the set of Finders Keepers for five minutes. …
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Fisherman’s Friends 2: One and All – The DVDfever Cinema Review – James Purefoy
Fisherman’s Friends 2: Fish Harder… sorry, Fisherman’s Friends 2: One and All, which feels like rather a mouthful and which doesn’t quite scan, but on watching this overlong film, I understood it’s a Cornish motto, …
Continue readingFeel 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 …
Continue readingThe Victim: The Complete Series – The DVDfever Review – Kelly Macdonald
The Victim follows ITV’s recent Cheat as being a four-part drama spread out over four consecutive nights, which is much better than putting it out over the same number of weeks, and expecting viewers to …
Continue readingLee And Dean Episodes 1 and 2 – The DVDfever Review
Lee and Dean are childhood friends and cockney builders who prank each other for ‘bantz’ (i.e. banter) whilst doing occasional pieces-to-camera mixed in with the fly-on-the-wall-style comedy but, The Office this is not. Miles Chapman, …
Continue readingThunderbirds Are Go – Ring Of Fire – Series 1 Episodes 1 and 2 – The DVDfever Review
Thunderbirds Are Go is yet another reboot for the series which once started with marionette puppets, back in the mid-60s and now, inevitably, relies solely on CGI, and while it contains a new version of …
Continue readingFortitude Episode 9 – The DVDfever Review
Fortitude Episode 9 begins by showing us Ronnie’s brutal murder but not showing who did the deed. Was it Frank? Then we cut to Liam, having spent most of the series in that bloody hyperbaric …
Continue readingFortitude Episode 8 – The DVDfever Review
Fortitude Episode 8 begins in the aftermath of Shirley vomiting into her Mum’s stomach, and she’s now outside… in the FREEZING cold, barefoot and bloodstained. Whatever she’s been doing in the interim, it’s happened offscreen, …
Continue readingFortitude Episode 7 – The DVDfever Review
Fortitude Episode 7 takes us past the halfway point and I was promised this episode would FINALLY be good! That would make the first one, so far, then. It’s Chrrrrrrrrriiiisssttmaaaaaaassss! As Noddy Holder might say. …
Continue readingFortitude Episode 6 – The DVDfever Review
Fortitude Episode 6 starts with a flashback, jumping a few episodes back to when Frank was having it away with Elena. Jules is seen heading out without a hat on, and is chanced upon by …
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