London Korean Film Festival 2016: The quality is always high and the quantity seems to expand each year, as Helen M Jerome finds at the 2016 London Korean Film Festival. These days the best-curated festivals …
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Jonathan Creek: Daemons’ Roost (2016 Christmas Special) – The DVDfever Review
Daemons’ Roost is the latest of a number of occasional Jonathan Creek specials, in lieu of a full series, but whether running for 60, 90 or 120 minutes, it continues the same pattern where I …
Continue readingThe Devil of Christmas – Inside No.9 Christmas 2016 – Series 3 Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review
The Devil of Christmas is the first Christmas special for Inside No.9 and delivers a spoof of a 1977 seasonal programme, shot in 4:3, complete with intentional bad acting, there’s a camera coming into shot …
Continue readingWar Dogs on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
War Dogs is narrated by David Packouz (Miles Teller), the film opening with him as the international arms dealer in question, and having a gun pointed at his head, showing the mess he’s got into, …
Continue readingSausage Party on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Sausage Party features lots of rudeness as sausages meet buns, causing much innuendo, which made me feel that the number of ideas were so thin in the trailer that I was amazed it lasted two-and-a-half …
Continue readingThe Witness For The Prosecution (2016) – The DVDfever Review – BBC Drama
The Witness For The Prosecution is one of many TV and film adaptions based on the original Agatha Christie short story, based in London, August 1923. Emily French (Kim Cattrall) is a wealthy woman with …
Continue readingMechanic Resurrection on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Mechanic Resurrection? Well, yes, Jason Statham‘s character pretended to die at the end of the first one, but no-one really tries to bury a potential franchise from the off. Still, would it make any difference …
Continue readingThe Return of Doctor Mysterio – Doctor Who: Christmas Episode 2016 – The DVDfever Review
The Return of Doctor Mysterio presented me with a dilemma since there were no previews available for this episode, despite there having been so for last year’s Christmas special, so I figured either this one …
Continue readingAlan Bennett’s Diaries – The DVDfever Review
Alan Bennett’s Diaries chronicles the great writer looking back over his life, with cameras following him for a year, putting his latest tome of diaries into print, selecting what goes in, and it’s a work …
Continue readingDarksiders: The Warmastered Edition on Xbox One – The DVDfever Review
Darksiders first came out on the Xbox 360 and PS3 in 2010, which doesn’t seem all that long ago. The game itself received mixed reviews, with it being the best-selling game in the month of …
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