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Brassic is slang for the Cockney rhyming term ‘boracic lint’, meaning ‘skint’. So, we have a comedy/drama series about a bunch of young men who want to participate in endless ‘get rich quick’ schemes which …
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Apostasy on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Apostasy is defined as “abandonment or renunciation of a religion by a person” and is what happened to one of the characters within. I’m not at all religious, but I’d heard a lot of good …
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Girlfriends Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review – Kay Mellor ITV drama
Girlfriends has quickly followed the ridiculously-titled Love, Lies and Records as another Kay Mellor drama to grace our screens, and the moment a dire cover of “Ain’t No Mountain Hugh Enough” boomed out over the …
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Bancroft Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review – Sarah Parish ITV drama
Bancroft… Anne Bancroft… no, that’s The Graduate. This, however, begins in 1990, and the song “Killer“, by Adamski and Seal. Of course, anyone with a brain knows that 1990 was time for the Guru, but …
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Broken Series 1 – The DVDfever Review – Jimmy McGovern BBC Drama
Broken is a new Jimmy McGovern six-part drama and one that’s difficult to assess from just a single episode. Sean Bean is Catholic priest Father Michael Kerrigan, a man with a large parrish who look …
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One Of Us Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review
One Of Us, one of us, one of us, one of us… sorry, no, there’s no repetitive chanting, here. The four-parter begins with the lovely tale of Adam and Grace (Jeremy Newmark Jones and Kate …
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Brighton Rock (2010) on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Brighton Rock is a remake of the 1947 film, directed by John Boulting, changing the setting from the 1930s to 1964, during the mods and rockers era, where Kite, the leader of a gang, is …
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