The Way sets the scene for a potentially powerful drama, set against the backdrop of a Welsh steelworker village where strikes are about to blight the town, but then they’re necessary in a Tory era. …
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Men Up – The DVDfever Review – BBC drama – Iwan Rheon, Joanna Page
Men Up is a new BBC TV movie based on a true story, about a group of men in Wales who have trouble keeping the British end up. We open with Meurig Jenkins (Iwan Rheon …
Continue readingSteeltown Murders – The DVDfever Review – BBC drama – Philip Glenister
Steeltown Murders is one of those dramas which is based on real events, but with additional scenes createed. You know the drill. It’s set in both 1973, and early 2000s, so I figured when we …
Continue readingDream Horse – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Toni Collette, Damian Lewis
Dream Horse centres around bored checkout operator Jan (Toni Collette – Stowaway), who dreams of owning and breeding a horse, and with the help of crowdfunding from her neighbours, she’ll manage it, but can she …
Continue readingWild Bill: The Complete Series – The DVDfever Review – Rob Lowe
Wild Bill brings us something I’d never have imagined from when I was first regularly watching ITV as a kid in the ’80s – first of all, it starts movie legend Rob Lowe, and secondly …
Continue readingSubmarine on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Submarine, set in Wales during the 1980s, is a comedy drama featuring Craig Roberts as Oliver Tate, a 15-year-old who finds it difficult to mix with others and tries to disconnect himself from reality to …
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