Jeopardy! sees Stephen Fry topping up his pension with a typical ITV afternoon gameshow, and I missed the first edition because I was busy counting my toenail-clipping collection. However, I figured I hadn’t missed an …
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The Sandman – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Tom Sturridge
The Sandman begins in 1916, at Wych Cross, England, and in the waking world, aka the ‘real world’. Meanwhile, the titular Sandman is in the dream world, with Dream (Tom Sturridge – Remainder, Journey’s End) …
Continue readingIt’s A Sin – The DVDfever Review – Russell T Davies – Channel 4 drama
It’s A Sin is the first TV drama from Russell T Davies since 2019’s Years and Years, which was mostly good, but occasionally slipped a bit. Davies also wrote some earlier powerful gay dramas in …
Continue readingSpyfall Part 1 – Doctor Who Series 12 Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review
Spyfall Part 1… the first part of a two-part Doctor Who story, and how often do they actually need to last so long? Rarely. Giving itself a similar name to Daniel Craig’s third, and very …
Continue readingBill Turnbull: Staying Alive – The DVDfever Review – Channel 4
Bill Turnbull: Staying Alive details the BBC Breakfast presenter’s fight after he was sadly diagnosed with terminal prostate cancer in 2017, this coming shortly after filming The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up to …
Continue readingMissing Link – Trailer 1 – Hugh Jackman
Missing Link stars Hugh Jackman as the charismatic Sir Lionel Frost, who considers himself to be the world’s foremost investigator of myths and monsters. The trouble is none of his small-minded high-society peers seems to …
Continue readingDuck Duck Goose – Teaser 1 – Zendaya
Duck Duck Goose is another example of how Hollywood has run out of ideas, following Emoji Movie and The Nut Job 2. In this latest CGI laugh-free fest, Peng (Jim Gaffigan) is a freewheeling bachelor …
Continue readingLove And Friendship on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Love And Friendship is based on Jane Austen‘s novella “Lady Susan“, and was a film I was really looking forward to after watching the trailer. It opened with introductions to members of the cast, as …
Continue readingBAFTA 2016 Television nominations announced!
BAFTA 2016 Television nominations have been announced, and the awards will be broadcast on BBC1 on May 8th. Best Actor: Ben Whishaw, London Spy Idris Elba, Luther Mark Rylance, Wolf Hall Stephen Graham, This is …
Continue readingLove and Friendship Official Trailer #1 – Kate Beckinsale
Love and Friendship is a comedy set in the 1790s, centring on beautiful widow Lady Susan Vernon (Kate Beckinsale – Underworld Awakening), who has come to the estate of her in-laws to wait out colourful …
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