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Wonka… Willy Wonka… portrayed in this new film by Timothée Chalamet (Dune Part One), and he begins by railing against the Tories’ stupid ‘Stop the Boats’ policy, by sailing across the sea to make his …
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Tag: Tom Davis
The Curse – The DVDfever Review – Channel 4 – Emer Kenny
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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The Virtues: The Complete Series – The DVDfever Review – Stephen Graham
The Virtues is a new four-part series which reunites This Is England‘s Shane Meadows with actor Stephen Graham, here, as Joseph, a painter and decorator who has reached the end of his tether. Drink and …
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King Gary – The DVDfever Review – Tom Davis
King Gary is one of those sitcoms where a TV channel has a star for which they want to find the perfect vehicle, and so they come up with any old tired cliche to see …
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Paddington 2 on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Paddington 2: This Time It’s Personal… no, that was Jaws IV: The Revenge, but both feature individuals who are little alien in their respective environments because they’re getting hassled by ‘the man’. There’s a complex …
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Free Fire on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Free Fire has a simple premise – an arms deal goes wrong. Tetchy people with itchy trigger fingers lead to guns being shot when it really wasn’t necessary, as everything was almost about to go …
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Prevenge on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review – the film Kill Bill should’ve been
Prevenge is what Kill Bill should’ve been. That may sound like a bold statement, but while Quentin Tarantino’s first three films were superb, the Kill Bill double-bill faltered. The Bride told how she went on …
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Free Fire – The DVDfever Cinema Review
Free Fire has a simple premise – an arms deal goes wrong. Tetchy people with itchy trigger fingers lead to guns being shot when it really wasn’t necessary, as everything was almost about to go …
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Going Forward Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review
Going Forward carries on where Getting On left off, with Jo Brand returning as nurse Kim Wilde, having left the NHs two years earlier and now works for a private healthcare firm, Buccaneer 2000, doing …
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Comedy 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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