A Private War is centered around the late Sunday Times war correspondent, Marie Colvin, portrayed by Rosamund Pike. In a world where journalism is under attack, Marie Colvin is one of the most celebrated war …
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Author: Dom Robinson
Reviewer of movies, videogames and music since 1994. Aortic valve operation survivor from the same year. Running DVDfever.co.uk since 2000. Nobel Peace Prize winner 2021.
Revenge – The DVDfever Review – The ‘Kill Bill’ Tarantino should have made!
Revenge made me think one important question: Remember when Quentin Tarantino used to make great films? For me, it’s been almost ten years, as Inglourious Basterds was that film for me, and before that, Jackie …
Continue readingBohemian Rhapsody – John Lewis made the worst ever advert in 2018?
Bohemian Rhapsody made No.1 in several countries upon its release, and is one of Queen’s greatest ever songs. It was given a brilliant homage in 1992’s Wayne’s World, as Wayne, Garth and their friends sang …
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Press Episodes 1 and 2 – The DVDfever Review – Charlotte Riley, Ben Chaplin
Press centres aroud two newspapers in this fictionalised Fleet Street. Workaholic Holly Evans (Charlotte Riley) works for the Herald, while Duncan Allen (Ben Chaplin) edits The Post, a more tabloid paper, and given their logo, …
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How to Talk to Girls at Parties on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
How to Talk to Girls at Parties has shown me one first: Hawaiian-born and Australia-raised Nicole Kidman with a Cockney accent… and shouting “We Are England!” Hmm… It’s 1977 – the year of the Queen’s …
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V-Rally 4 on Xbox One – The DVDfever Review
V-Rally 4 comes not-so-hot-on-the-hells from its older trilogy bretheren where you race along various tracks around the world – usually coming off them on sharp turns, all the while being almost-shouted at by your co-driver …
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Wanderlust Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review – Toni Collette
Wanderlust made me think it was going to go the way of David Cronenberg’s Crash, at first, as Joy (Toni Colette) was shown being involved in a car crash when someone whacked into her bike …
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Tanyalee Davis verbally abused by chavs on a train
Tanyalee Davis (above) again encountered more horrendous idiots on a train, but this time, it wasn’t the staff, but godawful chavs, all in need of a cold slap. Dom RobinsonReviewer of movies, videogames and music …
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Mother’s Day – The DVDfever Review – Warrington bomb BBC drama
Mother’s Day relives the harrowing day on Saturday, March 20th 1993, the day before Mother’s Day, and the day the IRA bombed Warrington, claiming the lives of young 12-year-old Tim Parry and 3-year-old Johnathan Ball. …
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Custody on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Custody centres around two warring parents – Miriam (Léa Drucker) and Antoine (Denis Ménochet) – who have split up, and naturally, the children are coming between them. With the eldest, Joséphine (Mathilde Auneveux) being 18, …
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