Black Doves opens with a number of people being followed and bumped off, including Jason (Andrew Koji – Boy Kills World), the bit on the side for Helen Webb (Keira Knightley – Everest IMAX 3D), …
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Luther: The Fallen Sun – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Idris Elba, Andy Serkis
Luther: The Fallen Sun shows that the long-running detective drama finally comes to the big screen… albeit on the small screen. It did get OTT later in the series, though, and rather lacking in the …
Continue readingBoiling Point on Blu-ray Limited Edition – The DVDfever Review – Stephen Graham
Boiling Point takes in a Christmas-time service at a busy restaurant which deals with posh nosh, and on Mad Friday, which is the Friday before the big day. One point of interest for me, is …
Continue readingWhite House Farm – The DVDfever Review – Stephen Graham
White House Farm is a new six-part ITV drama which starts the new year by bringing us the doom and gloom of a mass murder, this time based on the true story of what happened …
Continue readingHatton Garden: The Complete Series – The DVDfever Review – ITV 2019 Drama
Hatton Garden sees the story of the titular bank robbery being told for the third time, following 2017’s The Hatton Garden Job, and 2018’s King Of Thieves, with a more famous cast (and not as …
Continue readingSave Me: The Complete Series – The DVDfever Review – Lennie James
Save Me centres around Nelly (Lennie James), rather a modern day Arthur Daley, doing a bit of wheeling and dealing here and there, rather than a proper job. He has principles to a degree, but …
Continue readingPrime Suspect 1973 Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review
Prime Suspect 1973. It’s 1973, almost dinnertime… I’m ‘avin ‘oops! No, it’s not Gene Hunt in Life On Mars, but it’s the same year for this Prime Suspect prequel and set in Hackney, daan saath, …
Continue readingCuffs Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review
Cuffs is, effectively, the BBC’s answer to the long-since-defunct The Bill. As it begins, PC Ryan Draper (Ashley Walters) is teamed up with rookie PC Jake Vickers (Jacob Ifan), and he has just 21 Seconds …
Continue readingJekyll and Hyde Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review
Jekyll and Hyde was first announced by the babbling continuity announcer with “contains some violence and scenes that young children might find upsetting”, so it’s going for the Doctor Who audience, then, although older viewers …
Continue readingThe Scandalous Lady W – The DVDfever Review
The Scandalous Lady W apparently told the true story of Lady Seymour Worsley (Game Of Thrones and Hunger Games star Natalie Dormer), set in England, 1782, when a man’s wife was considred his property. Unfortunately, …
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