Allelujah! is a film based on a 2018 Alan Bennett (Talking Heads) play, where Sister Gilpin (Jennifer Saunders – The Stranger) steers the Bethlehem Hospital with a firm hand on the tiller, brilliantly mixing in …
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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 readingThe Serpent Queen – The DVDfever Review – Starzplay – Samantha Morton
The Serpent Queen is set in France, beginning in 1560, where Queen Catherine De Medici (the brilliant Samantha Morton – I Am Kirsty, Save The Cinema) reigns with terror… rather like the Tories in the …
Continue readingGhost Stories on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Ghost Stories comes out on Blu-ray and DVD a little early for Halloween, but it’ll give you time to get ready. The film is presented partly as a documentary presented by Professor Philip Goodman (Andy …
Continue readingThin Ice – Doctor Who Series 10 Episode 3 – The DVDfever Review
Thin Ice is what’s covering the Thames in 1814 London, as there’s monsters underneath, waiting to swipe the population. Taking place within an old-style Victorian market and fayre on the ice, early on, Bill worries …
Continue readingCoalition – The DVDfever Review
Coalition is a Channel 4 drama based on the week following the 2010 UK general election, as Labour came to the end of a chequered 13-year term in government, with the Tories snapping at their …
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