Bodies is a new 8-part drama where a dead body is found in four different timelines, but it’s actually the same body! Starting in 2023, cop Shahara Hasan (Amaka Okafor – Grace) is on the …
Continue readingTag: Tim Downie
Back Series 2 – The DVDfever Review – David Mitchell, Robert Webb
Back Series 2 is here, and it’s been a while since series 1 aired, but at the time, Andrew (Robert Webb) had ingratiated himself with everyone at the John Barleycorn pub, and pushing Stephen’s (David …
Continue readingHorrible Histories: The Movie – Rotten Romans on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Horrible Histories: The Movie – Rotten Romans brings the series to the big screen (for the second time, following 2015’s Shakespeare comedy, Bill), and begins with Claudius (portrayed – as with the 1976 TV series …
Continue readingThe Mercy – Trailer 1 – Colin Firth
The Mercy looks like one of those movies where the lead character really should be played by someone younger, as Colin Firth takes the role of yachtsman Donald Crowhurst, who made a disastrous attempt to …
Continue readingYoung Hyacinth (2016) – The DVDfever Review
Young Hyacinth, with Kerry Howard in the lead role as Mrs Bucket-to-be, is a cleaner, who we see working for the ever-at-odds couple Dulcie (Debra Stephenson) and Claude (Tony Gardner), with him oddly calling his …
Continue readingUpstart Crow Episode 1: Star Crossed Lovers – The DVDfever Review
Upstart Crow is Ben Elton and David Mitchell‘s contribution to the BBC’s 400th ‘dead Shakespeare’ month-long love-in and, following, Peep Show, I didn’t think the latter could put a foot wrong… But then I heard …
Continue readingPaddington on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Paddington is the one about the bear from darkest Peru who came to live with the Brown family in London, whilst having a fetish for marmalade sandwiches. From his origins in book form in 1958, …
Continue reading