Hamlet 2026: Whenever there’s a new version of this Shakespeare play, we have to ask, will it be as good as Mel Gibson’s 1990 movie? Well, what doesn’t help is that it’s told in Olde-Worlde …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of DEATH VALLEY on BBC1!
Death Valley brings us a murder of a man called Carwyn, that looks like an apparent suicide, but because reasons, the only one who’ll be able to sort it out isn’t the actual police, but …
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Wicked Little Letters – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Jessie Buckley, Olivia Colman
Wicked Little Letters is exactly what most of the townsfolk of Littlehampton are receiving, in 1920, full of profanity I can’t repeat here, and it all appears to be coming from the pen of uncouth …
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Bolan’s Shoes – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Timothy Spall, Leanne Best
Bolan’s Shoes, the footwear of which, makes for a rather tenuous link to give this British film more gravitas than it deserves. Siblings Jimmy (Timothy Spall – Away, The Sixth Commandment) and Penny (Leanne Best …
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The Sixth Commandment – The DVDfever Review – BBC drama – Timothy Spall
The Sixth Commandment opens with the text… “This is a true story. What follows is based on extensive research, interviews and published accounts, with some scenes created for dramatic purposes” I’d never heard of this …
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The Pale Blue Eye – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Christian Bale
The Pale Blue Eye is a new Netflix movie where, under the notification from Captain Hitchcock (Simon McBurney), Augustus Landor (Christian Bale) is tasked by Superintendent Thayer (Timothy Spall) to investigate the mysterious death, and …
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Summer Of Rockets – The DVDfever Review – Keeley Hawes
Summer Of Rockets is a new Stephen Poliakoff drama set around the beginning of the Cold War, circa 1957/58, and while I’ve not really been able to get into his earlier works, this one did …
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Hatton 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 …
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Early Man on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Early Man takes us back to the dawn of man, with lead character Dug (Eddie Redmayne) looking very much like the cheese-loving Wallace with his goofy teeth. Baddie of the piece goes to Lord Nooth …
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The Commuter – Philip K Dick’s Electric Dreams Episode 3 – The DVDfever Review
The Commuter is the third episode in Philip K Dick’s Electric Dreams and is set in an era that feels like a mixture of ’60s, ’70s and ’80s, with decor jumping between all three. Having …
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