Black Ops centres around two PCSOs, aka Police Community Support Officers, who can’t arrest a scrote who’s just attacked a security guard, thus pointing themselves out to be a complete waste of space. Since it …
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Censor on Blu-ray Special Edition – The DVDfever Review – Niamh Algar
Censor begins with two BBFC film censors working out what to cut from a film, in order to arrive at an 18-certificate, including “trimming the tiniest bit off the end of the genitals”… Oo-er! After …
Continue readingHullraisers – The DVDfever Review – Channel 4 – Leah Brotherhead
Hullraisers is a new Channel 4 sitcom which begins with a young woman doing the early morning ‘Walk of Shame’ as she comes home from a night out, at a time when everyone’s long since …
Continue readingThis Time With Alan Partridge Series 2 – The DVDfever Review – Steve Coogan
This Time With Alan Partridge Series 2 reunites the awkward pairing of Steve Coogan‘s (The Trip To Greece) long-suffering – and for some people he interviews (along with his assistant, Lynn), insufferable – character, with …
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 readingSally4Ever Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review – Julia Davis
Sally4Ever gives us Catherine Shepherd (above-centre) as Sally, a woman in her early 40s who’s trapped in a 10-year relationship from which she should have long since escaped. She feels pressured into marriage, and really …
Continue readingFelicity Montagu joins This Time With Alan Partridge
Felicity Montagu has been confirmed by Steve Coogan that she’ll be returning to the Partridge fold in This Time With Alan Partridge, which is coming to BBC1 later on in 2018, some 25 years after …
Continue readingChinese Burn – The DVDfever Review – BBC Three pilot episode
Chinese Burn is a new BBC Three comedy pilot for which the billing states will “smash all Chinese stereotypes with a round-house kick”. It doesn’t, really. Dom RobinsonReviewer of movies, videogames and music since 1994. …
Continue readingBrief Encounters Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review
Brief Encounters summarises the story of Jacqueline Gold, for ITV-friendly audiences, about how she started a business selling exotic lingerie and ‘marital aids’ at parties within the homes of her friends, under the Ann Summers …
Continue readingDad’s Army (2016) on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Dad’s Army – the sheer mention of a movie remake of a once-classic TV series was enough to strike fear into the hearts of the nation. Probably more so than the threat of another World …
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