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This Town comes from the pen of Steven Knight, who brought us Peaky Blinders – a series I’ve still to see. Opening on Lozells Road, Birmingham in 1981, before it moves on to Falls Road, …
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All The Light We Cannot See – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Aria Mia Loberti
All the Light We Cannot See is a new Netflix 4-part mini series, based on the novel by Anthony Doerr, beginning in St Malo, Nazi-Occupied France, in August 1944. The US Army Air Forces, 565th …
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Great Expectations – The DVDfever Review – BBC drama – Olivia Colman
Great Expectations is something I didn’t particularly have for yet another adaptation of a Charles Dickens novel. I’ve never read it, but for whatever reason, previews of this were available for big websites, but not …
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SAS Rogue Heroes – The DVDfever Review – BBC drama – Dominic West
SAS Rogue Heroes is a new six-part World War II drama, which states it’s: “Based on a true story. Those events depicted, which seem most unbelievable… are mostly true.” It sets the scene with the …
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Spencer – First Look – Kristen Stewart – Princess Diana movie
Spencer is the forthcoming movie starring Kristen Stewart as Diana, Princess of Wales, aka Lady Spencer, hence the title – and because they’re running out of names to give to films about the deceased princess. …
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A Christmas Carol 2019 – The DVDfever Review – Guy Pearce
A Christmas Carol 2019 takes place on “the Eve of Christmas Eve” in London, 1843, and while it’s broadcast tomorrow night on BBC1 at 9pm, it’s already aired in the US. It’s exactly a year …
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The Girl In The Spider’s Web on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
The Girl In The Spider’s Web comes from the same director as the Evil Dead 2013 reboot, Fede Alvarez, and while it wasn’t a great film by any stretch of the imagination, it did have …
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Serenity – Trailer 1 – Anne Hathaway
Serenity reunites Interstellar‘s Anne Hathaway and Matthew McConaughey, the latter of whom looks rather like William Petersen in To Live And Die In L.A., with his big silly beard. But about the plot, and it …
Continue readingWoman Walks Ahead – Trailer 1 – Jessica Chastain
Woman Walks Ahead is one of those period movies that looks like it could’ve been made with an eye towards the Oscars and BAFTAs, but completely missed the mark by being interminably dull. The story …
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Allied on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Allied – the film where Brad Pitt takes the lead in the post-war drama as Max Vatan, the head of the Birmingham carpets and flooring company. His Brummy accent is impeccable!! But he takes a …
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