The House That Jack Built is a film for which I knew absolutely nothing when I first saw the trailer. Seemed like a fairly straight-forward drama at first, with Matt Dillon reluctantly pulling over for …
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The House That Jack Built – Trailer 1 – Matt Dillon
The House That Jack Built has a trailer which looked weird from the off, but then given that it’s a new film from Lars Von Trier, ‘weird’ is a given, and this will be violent …
Continue readingFortitude Season 2 Episode 5 – The DVDfever Review
Fortitude Season 2 Episode 5 is where I am this increasingly ridiculous series part ways. I have tried, but while the first series was occasionally “so bad it’s good”, this one has stumbled along like …
Continue readingFortitude Season 2 Episode 4 – The DVDfever Review
Fortitude Season 2 Episode 4 is the point where I’m still wondering why I’m bothering and I’m going to give this show one more episode after this before I consider calling it a day. Series …
Continue readingFortitude Season 2 Episode 3 – The DVDfever Review
Fortitude Season 2 Episode 3 felt like rather a filler episode where not an awful lot happened, even if what did happen was very weird. After seeing PC Ingrid’s taking Rene Lennox (okay, he’s called …
Continue readingFortitude Season 2 Episode 2 – The DVDfever Review
Fortitude Season 2 Episode 2 begins with an unknown drifter talking incoherently while staring at something in the distance… a bear… carrying something… a reindeer calf, but…. he’s got no eyes! How does he smell? …
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Fortitude Season 2 comes two years after the first one with which I had a love/hate relationship – hardly anyone could act, hence why I dubbed it ‘Eldorado In The Arctic‘ as well as ‘Nordic …
Continue readingFortitude Episode 12 – The DVDfever Review
Fortitude Episode 12 signals the end of ‘Eldorado In The Arctic‘ – bad acting, random accents and disjointed storylines. Yes, it’s the 1992 soap all over again! Vincent’s still trapped inside with Dr Allerdyce and …
Continue readingFortitude Episode 11 – The DVDfever Review
Fortitude Episode 11 means we’re at the penultimate episode of one of the biggest disappointments in television history, so that’s something to be thankful for, at least. Well, Dan did have a change of heart …
Continue readingFortitude Episode 10 – The DVDfever Review
Fortitude Episode 10 begins with Henry enjoying the only thing you can enjoy about this dire series – the snowy hilltops on a clear day, as he listens to his old-fangled Sony Walkman. Lorcan Cranitch …
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