The Jetty is a four-part series starts on Monday, and presumably will be on iPlayer in full from day one, but as soon as I saw it listed on the BBC’s Youtube community tab with …
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Napoleon – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Joaquin Phoenix, Vanessa Kirby
Napoleon is the latest historical epic with made-up facts, but first, tonight we’re gonna party like it’s 1789, as we have a load of introductory text, and when it begins: “The French have become disillusioned …
Continue readingHead Full of Honey – Trailer 1 – Nick Nolte
Head Full of Honey stars Nick Nolte as an elderly man suffering from Alzheimer’s, who embarks on a final road trip with his granddaughter. The film is based on the movie Honig im Kopf, and …
Continue readingBridget Jones’ Baby – Even men will like it! – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Bridget Jones’ Baby – let’s get this right from the start. For me, that’s the title, NOT “Bridget Jones’s Baby”. Who puts the extra, redundant ‘s’ in these things? Probably the same people who say …
Continue readingPorridge (2016) – The DVDfever Review
Porridge, aka, the slop once served up for breakfast in the nick, which led to “doing porridge” being slang for serving a prison sentence, doesn’t bring Ronnie Barker’s character back into it, but attempts to …
Continue readingUpstart Crow Episode 1: Star Crossed Lovers – The DVDfever Review
Upstart Crow is Ben Elton and David Mitchell‘s contribution to the BBC’s 400th ‘dead Shakespeare’ month-long love-in and, following, Peep Show, I didn’t think the latter could put a foot wrong… But then I heard …
Continue readingUnforgotten Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review
Unforgotten was more ‘uneven’, blending a story about bones being found under a house – not an uncommon occurence these days as housing estates are redeveloped, and in this case it was thanks to some …
Continue readingThe Delivery Man Series 1 Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review
The Delivery Man had a fair bit to live up to, following on from the first new episode of Newzoids, and ITV’s track record of sitcoms shows that for every The Job Lot, there are …
Continue readingPaddington on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Paddington is the one about the bear from darkest Peru who came to live with the Brown family in London, whilst having a fetish for marmalade sandwiches. From his origins in book form in 1958, …
Continue readingWe Are The Freaks – unleashed on DVD on May 5th
We Are The Freaks is a surreal and anarchic anti-teen movie about three misfits on a disastrous night out, released in cinemas last Friday and now out on DVD on Monday courtesy of Metrodome Distribution. …
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