The Curse is an ’80s-set crime comedy, beginning with a prologue which mixes slamming of Thatcher’s government as she destroyed the working classes, in with the rise of the Yuppies, and how it leads to …
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Horrible Histories: The Movie – Rotten Romans on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Horrible Histories: The Movie – Rotten Romans brings the series to the big screen (for the second time, following 2015’s Shakespeare comedy, Bill), and begins with Claudius (portrayed – as with the 1976 TV series …
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 readingStewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle Series 4 Episode 1: Wealth – The DVDfever Review
Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle is rather like Luther – it comes round every 2-3 years and is to the TV schedules what oxygen is to our bodies – an essential requirement. Often, the programme is …
Continue readingComedy Feeds on BBC iPlayer – The DVDfever Review
Comedy Feeds is the series of pilots, commissioned by BBC3, and which normally get a late night airing on TV as they have done before, but this year, they’re Internet-only and can be viewed on …
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