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Allelujah! is a film based on a 2018 Alan Bennett (Talking Heads) play, where Sister Gilpin (Jennifer Saunders – The Stranger) steers the Bethlehem Hospital with a firm hand on the tiller, brilliantly mixing in …
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Censor on Blu-ray Special Edition – The DVDfever Review – Niamh Algar
Censor begins with two BBFC film censors working out what to cut from a film, in order to arrive at an 18-certificate, including “trimming the tiniest bit off the end of the genitals”… Oo-er! After …
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The Witchfinder – The DVDfever Review – BBC – Tim Key, Daisy May Cooper
The Witchfinder is one of those set-in-the-past sitcoms where, in this case, it’s 17th Century life with the added aspect of modern-day language and structure, so when we first meet Daisy May Cooper‘s character, Thomasine …
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Gentleman Jack Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review – Suranne Jones
Gentleman Jack begins in 1832, and sees Suranne Jones (Save Me, Scott and Bailey, Doctor Foster) take the lead of landowner Anne Lister, who’s trying to transform her family estate, so it’s a bit like …
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Bodyguard Series 1 – The DVDfever Review – Richard Madden
Bodyguard begins with Afghanistan war veteran cop David Budd (Richard Madden) tries to play “spot the terrorist” on a train, and he quickly makes himself the ‘Liam Neeson’ of the piece. Before getting into more …
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Jonathan Strange And Mr Norrell: The Complete Series – The DVDfever Review
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell is a TV adaptation based on a novel by Susanna Clarke. Since I don’t read books, I’d never heard of it before, but when the trailer appeared on TV, I …
Continue readingJonathan Strange And Mr Norrell – Episode 2 Trailer and Clips
Jonathan Strange And Mr Norrell had a very strong opening with its first episode and, even though I didn’t follow everything that was going on, I enjoyed it immensely and will be watching the rest …
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Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell is a TV adaptation based on a novel by Susanna Clarke. Since I don’t read books, I’d never heard of it before, but when the trailer appeared on TV, I …
Continue readingJonathan Strange And Mr Norrell – Launch Trailer
Jonathan Strange And Mr Norrell is based on the 2004 novel by Susanna Clarke, depicting an alternative history set in 19th-century England around the time of the Napoleonic Wars, a time when, with magic long …
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Cucumber, Banana and Tofu – Series 1 Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review
Cucumber, banana and tofu are the stages of male sexual arousal, and the first in a new series from Russell T Davies This first entry in the series, and the trilogy, concentrated on Henry (Vincent …
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