Freak Show centres around teenager Billy Bloom (Alex Lawther – Ghost Stories), who dares to be different. He wants to cross-dress and gets noticed when he goes to school as Boy George. You can imagine …
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The Guilty – The DVDfever Review – Jakob Cedergren
The Guilty centres around Danish emergency services call operator Asger Holm (Jakob Cedergren, above), who at first comes across as far from understanding when he gets a call from someone who’s taken drugs and is …
Continue readingThis Time With Alan Partridge: The Complete Series – The DVDfever Review – Steve Coogan
This Time With Alan Partridge sees the hapless presenter return to the BBC, and I was already in stitches from the trailer simply when he was forever being ignored while asking for a glass of …
Continue readingWarren Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review – Martin Clunes
Warren is played by Martin Clunes. He’s grumpy. He gets annoyed when the petrol pump doesn’t go to exactly £30.00, and it goes over by 7p. Quite frankly, I prefer going over, since it stands …
Continue readingParents: Vestron Collector’s Series on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review – Randy Quaid
Parents is set in the heart of suburbia where everyone lives in a huge house, and aspires to an affluent lifestyle. However, in moving to a new school, the first thing young Michael Laemle (Bryan …
Continue readingHunter Killer on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Hunter Killer – I can’t say it’s ‘Die Hard on a submarine’, since (a) it’s not, and (b) that was claimed by the so-so Under Siege in 1992. You don’t watch Gerard Butler action films …
Continue readingCurfew (2019) – The DVDfever Review – Sean Bean
Curfew is a new drama which felt from the trailer like it was being a remake of Death Race 2000, and it feels like so many people are driving trucks like Mick Jagger did in …
Continue readingBaptiste: The Complete Series – The DVDfever Review – Tchéky Karyo
Baptiste marks the return of French detective Julien Baptiste (Tchéky Karyo), who you’ll remember from The Missing, but after two series of that, they wanted to make a third (and it’s still on the cards), …
Continue readingTwo For Joy – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Daniel Mays
Two For Joy begins with the last day of school for Vi (Emilia Jones, daughter of Aled Jones and she was brilliant opposite Guy Pearce in Brimstone), but life is far from easy for her. …
Continue readingClimax – The DVDfever Review – Gaspar Noé
Climax begins with an opening dance number, to a remix of Cerrone’s Supernature, which turns into an incredibly well-choreographed spin around the dance floor for everyone involved, so yeah, sod The Greatest Dancer on BBC1, …
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