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Damned Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review – Jo Brand comedy

Damned is a new sitcom about social workers who are damned if they do, and damned if they don’t. In reality, they can never get a break. Too much is expected from them, and the moment something goes wrong, the press jump on them. So far, I’ve seen the first two episodes, and both have […]

Morgana Robinson’s The Agency Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review

Morgana Robinson’s The Agency is the comedienne’s first solo impressions show, fimled in the style of a documentary series following a number of telvision and radio celebrities who come in and out of a casting agency, run by Cavan Clerkin. Her impressions include Natalie Cassidy, Russell Brand, Danny Dyer, Mel and Sue, Fearne Cotton, Gregg […]

Crisis In Six Scenes Season 1 – Woody Allen – The DVDfever Review

Crisis In Six Scenes is the new TV project for prolific writer/director Woody Allen, a man who churns out a new film every year, even as he approaches his 81st birthday. Set in the ’60s, he takes the lead role as Sid Munzinger, a novelist working on a new TV show, and having written a […]

The Magnificent Seven 2016 – morelike The Mephitic Seven – The DVDfever Cinema Review

The Magnificent Seven, like Ben-Hur, is another of the current crop of remakes where I’ve never seen any previous version, whether the 1960 movie with Yul Brynner, the late ’90s TV series, or 1954’s original The Seven Samurai, by Akira Kurosawa. The plot is not a complex affair. It’s the 1870s, the Civil War has […]

The Commitments 25th Anniversary Edition on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review

The Commitments is one of those all-time classics. I loved it in the cinema, I loved it on DVD and I’m loving it again on Blu-ray. It’s the tale of an unlikely band being brought together, against the odds, to sing soul. They bicker, they fight, they fall out, they argue, they fight some more, […]

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them – Official Trailer 2

Posted by Dom Robinson on September 28th, 2016

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is JK Rowling‘s latest foray into fantasy nonsense, telling the adventures of writer Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) in New York’s secret community of witches and wizards, seventy years before Harry Potter reads his book in school.

And now the second official trailer has been released.

I still haven’t got round to seeing a Harry Potter movie, but while I’ve no desiree to sit through all eight, the one I *do* keep meaning to catch up with is the third one, Harry Potter and the Prisoner Of Azkaban, as is was directed by Alfonso Cuarón, who had some fantastic one-take scenes in Children Of Men with Clive Owen, one lasting around 20 minutes. Mr Cuarón also made a little-known space movie called Gravity.

Doctor Strange – Official Trailer 2 – Benedict Cumberbatch

Posted by Dom Robinson on September 27th, 2016

Doctor Strange. Doctor Who. Doctor Foster. “Doctor, Doctor” by the Thompson Twins… the world is never short of doctors to put in the entertainment outlets…

Benedict Cumberbatch is Stephen Strange, the world’s top neurosurgeon, unfortunately injured in a car accident that ruins his career, but helpfully letting him discover the hidden world of magic and alternate dimensions. This leads him to set out on a journey of healing, where he encounters the Ancient One (Ben Kingsley as Tilda Swinton), who later becomes Strange’s mentor in the mystic arts.

And now, a second trailer has been released.

I’m very tempted to see this one on the big IMAX screen at the Odeon Manchester Printworks, which is the second biggest IMAX screen in Europe and only slightly smaller than the BFI IMAX, since if the visuals are as regular in the film as they are in this trailer, then it’ll be quite a treat.

King Cobra – Official Trailer 1 – James Franco

Posted by Dom Robinson on September 27th, 2016

King Cobra tells the story of Sean Paul Lockhart (aka Brent Corrigan), played by Garrett Clayton, a gay porn headliner who, and how he fell out with the producer, Joe (James Franco), who made him famous. When Sean decides he’d be better off a free agent, a cash-strapped pair of rival producers aim to cash in by any means possible.

Written and directed by Justin Kelly, based on a story by D. Madison Savage, the film also stars some people you haven’t seen in a big film for a while, in Christian Slater, Molly Ringwald and Alicia Silverstone, plus Keegan Allen, Sean Grandillo and Spencer Rocco Lofranco, and it looks pretty good. Certainly will be worth it for Slater and Ringwald.

King Cobra is released on October 21st in the US, but as of yet there’s no UK date.

Check out the trailer below and click on the poster for the full-size image.

Fences – Official Trailer 1 – Denzel Washington

Posted by Dom Robinson on September 27th, 2016

Fences Fences stars Denzel Washington as Troy, an African American father, who struggles with race relations in the USA while trying to raise his family in the 1950s and coming to terms with the events of his life.

Denzel also directs himself, plus Viola Davis (Suicide Squad) and Mykelti Williamson (Forrest Gump) from a script written by August Wilson, based on their own play.

Little else is known about this film just yet, although his character is rather a bar-steward, and I still don’t think that Denzel Washington can act his way out of a paper bag, and this was brought home even more with his recent foray into a Western with The Magnificent Seven, but despite all that, for a change, Fences does look like a Denzel film worth watching.

Fences is built in the US on December 25th, but as of yet, we’ve not got a release date for construction to begin in the UK.

Check out the trailer below and click on the poster for the full-size image.

Damned Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review – Jo Brand comedy

Posted by Dom Robinson on September 27th, 2016

Damned is a new sitcom about social workers who are damned if they do, and damned if they don’t. In reality, they can never get a break. Too much is expected from them, and the moment something goes wrong, the press jump on them.

So far, I’ve seen the first two episodes, and both have begun with various calls coming in from the public including one-liners such as “What’s the alcohol allowance for a 12-year-old?” and “You’ve taken all the kids into care. Can you take the rabbit as well?”

Morgana Robinson’s The Agency Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review

Posted by Dom Robinson on September 26th, 2016

Morgana Robinson’s The Agency is the comedienne’s first solo impressions show, fimled in the style of a documentary series following a number of telvision and radio celebrities who come in and out of a casting agency, run by Cavan Clerkin.

Her impressions include Natalie Cassidy, Russell Brand, Danny Dyer, Mel and Sue, Fearne Cotton, Gregg Wallace, Adele and Joanna Lumley.

Video Games Charts week ending September 24th 2016

Posted by Dom Robinson on September 26th, 2016

In the Video Games Charts week ending September 24th 2016, there are 1 new entry and 2 re-entries.

Bioshock: The Collection

Pro Evolution Soccer 2017

review

NBA 2K17

Destiny: The Collection

Overwatch

review

Rocket League

Fallout 4

review

Grand Theft Auto V

review

LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens

review

Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End

Crisis In Six Scenes Season 1 – Woody Allen – The DVDfever Review

Posted by Dom Robinson on September 26th, 2016

Crisis In Six Scenes is the new TV project for prolific writer/director Woody Allen, a man who churns out a new film every year, even as he approaches his 81st birthday.

Set in the ’60s, he takes the lead role as Sid Munzinger, a novelist working on a new TV show, and having written a lot of television commercials in the past, but not everyone’s a fan. For example, the series begins with him at the barber shop wanting to get a haircut like James Dean, where he learns the man attending to his hair took ages to read his latest book… because it made him fall asleep.

Syndrome – sci-fi survival horror – Steam October 6th

Posted by Dom Robinson on September 26th, 2016

Syndrome is a new first-person sci-fi survival horror adventure game coming to Steam, which takes place inside a drifting spaceship. The title isn’t due out until October 6th, but has already been nominated for two of this year’s awards, making it a highly-anticipated Steam title released this autumn.

The story unfolds as you awake from cryosleep and realise that all your crew members are gone and that the ship is full of bloodthirsty monstrosities reacting to every sound around them. Having limited ammunition you will have to put your stealth skills in use evading the creatures and exploring surroundings to uncover what had happened to the spaceship and if there’s any hope of surviving this living nightmare.

Check out the 13-minute gameplay video below, you can find the game on Steam here, and click on tne top-right image for the full-size version: