Fortitude Episode 8 begins in the aftermath of Shirley vomiting into her Mum’s stomach, and she’s now outside… in the FREEZING cold, barefoot and bloodstained. Whatever she’s been doing in the interim, it’s happened offscreen, …
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Leviathan on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Leviathan is set in the Russian coastal town of Pribrezhny where put-upon manual labourer, Kolya (Aleksey Serebryakov, giving a fantastic performance), has more than enough on his plate to make a man finally snap. The …
Continue readingThe Imitation Game on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
The Imitation Game begins in 1951 with Detective Nock (The Casual Vacancy‘s Rory Kinnear) and Sgt Staehl (Ideal‘s Tom Goodman-Hill) turn up to the reported break-in at Alan Turing’s house, where he’s reluctant to talk …
Continue readingNightcrawler on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Nightcrawler stars Jake Gyllenhaal as unemployed loner and plant-watering obsessive Lou Bloom, stalking the streets at night, looking for a story to tell, but as he goes about his activities, but I learned early on …
Continue readingCritical Series 1 Episode 2 – The DVDfever Review
Critical Series 1 Episode 2 and aother day, another near-death inside the impossibly clean hospital, where no-one smokes outside in the No Smoking area – unlike any other hospital I’ve been in… Today’s patient is …
Continue readingFortitude Episode 7 – The DVDfever Review
Fortitude Episode 7 takes us past the halfway point and I was promised this episode would FINALLY be good! That would make the first one, so far, then. It’s Chrrrrrrrrriiiisssttmaaaaaaassss! As Noddy Holder might say. …
Continue readingThe Casual Vacancy Episode 3 – The DVDfever Review
The Casual Vacancy Episode 3 finally puts itself out of its misery, and a good job too as, quite frankly, over the course of these three weeks I could’ve pulled a better story out of …
Continue readingFortitude Episode 6 – The DVDfever Review
Fortitude Episode 6 starts with a flashback, jumping a few episodes back to when Frank was having it away with Elena. Jules is seen heading out without a hat on, and is chanced upon by …
Continue readingHardware 25th Anniversary Special Edition on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Hardware is out now in a 25th Anniversary Special Edition, and is set out in the sticks, or what would pass for the sticks amongst a desolate planet. Moses Baxter (Dylan McDermott) finds and brings …
Continue readingCritical Series 1 Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review
Critical is the first new series from former doctor Jed Mecurio since Line of Duty, which saw its second series air on BBC2 in March last year, but he’s also responsible for the wonderful Cardiac …
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