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 …
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Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? – The DVDfever Review – ITV drama – Will Poulter
“Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?” is the question asked by a man about to be deceased, courtesy of a fall down a steep hill, before he shuffles off his mortal coil. Dom RobinsonReviewer of movies, …
Continue readingSAS Rogue Heroes – The DVDfever Review – BBC drama – Dominic West
SAS Rogue Heroes is a new six-part World War II drama, which states it’s: “Based on a true story. Those events depicted, which seem most unbelievable… are mostly true.” It sets the scene with the …
Continue readingJourney’s End on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review – Asa Butterfield
Journey’s End takes place towards the conclusion of World War I, for a few days from Monday, 18th March 1918 onwards, in St Quentin, Northern France. There’s a stalemate, and the Germans want to break …
Continue readingBad Move Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review – Jack Dee sitcom
Bad Move sees Steve (Jack Dee) and Nicky (Kerry Godliman) making a ‘bad move’ because they sell up their house in the city and relocate to the country in what turns out to be a… …
Continue readingAlan Partridge’s Scissored Isle – The DVDfever Review
Alan Partridge’s Scissored Isle is another in the long line of Steve Coogan‘s character’s spin-offs and I can’t claim to have seen every last minute of his output, but what I have seen I’ve hugely …
Continue readingThe Monuments Men – The DVDfever cinema review
The Monuments Men is a film that can be summed up in one sentence, and really should be meant to play out equally succinctly but, unfortunately, is allowed by its director and lead actor, George …
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