Skip to content
Satyricon, by Federico Fellini, is one of the most bizarre cinematic experiences ever committed to celluloid, in my view. I first saw it at Keele Film Society back in the early 1990s. The brochure described …
Continue reading
Category: Reviews
No Offence Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review
No Offence is the latest Paul Abbott drama to come to Channel 4 in a blaze of publicity, with the same trailer being shown about 954 times in the past few weeks, or so it …
Continue reading
The Duke of Burgundy on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
The Duke of Burgundy centres around a ‘master and servant’ BDSM relationship, with Cynthia (Borgen‘s Sidse Babett Knudsen) lording it over Evelyn (Chiara D’Anna), for example, making the latter clean the house whilst crawling around …
Continue reading
The C Word – The DVDfever Review
The C Word told the story of a remarkable young lady who I hadn’t heard about before watching this – Lisa Lynch, who was diagnosed with breast cancer and she found an outlet by recording …
Continue reading
Birdman on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Birdman, or to give it its full title, “Birdman: or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)“, stars Michael Keaton as has-been actor Riggan Thompson, whose glory days are behind him, hence the rather self-referential aspect to …
Continue reading
The Game (2015) – The DVDfever Review – BBC – Tom Hughes
The Game (2015) is a new thiller TV series which I was initially in two minds about, after reading about it and seeing the trailer and a clip, as it looked very similar to the …
Continue reading
Seance Time – Inside No.9 Series 2 Episode 6 – The DVDfever Review
Seance Time is the final episode of series 2 of Inside No.9, began with a suitably spooky opening as the mysterious Hives (Reece Shearsmith) escorted young lady Tina (Sophie McShera) into a darkened room where …
Continue reading
GTA V on PC – The DVDfever Review
GTA V on PC is the latest and final format in which the game is being released. It was first released on the PS3 and Xbox 360 back in October 2013, which feels quite some …
Continue reading
Midnight Run on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Midnight Run is a fantastic buddy-buddy action comedy and one of many films at the time which bore the extreme brunt of TV censorship in the ’90s when they couldn’t handle the f-word – even …
Continue reading
Peter Kay’s Car Share Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review
Peter Kay’s Car Share is the first new series starring Peter Kay since… well, I had to look it up, since he’s made a fortune living off the fortunes of Phoenix Nights after taking the …
Continue reading