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Marvel’s Helstrom Season 1 Episode 2 Review – ‘Viaticum’

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Martin Carr reviews the second episode of Marvel’s Helstrom… As tagline titles go the literal translation of episode two refers to anyone seeking absolution prior to their passing. An admission and forgiveness of all transgressions before either ascension or otherwise takes place. It also opens up the faith debate in terms of whether or not […]

Movie Review – Rebecca (2020)

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Rebecca, 2020. Directed by Ben Wheatley. Starring Lily James, Armie Hammer, Keeley Hawes, Kristin Scott Thomas, Sam Riley, Anna Dowd and Bill Paterson. SYNOPSIS: Manderley is the ancestral country seat of Maxim de Winter (Armie Hammer). Shrouded in secrets, rife with scandal and cloaked in tragedy it sits precariously overlooking a ravaged coast line. It […]

Marvel’s Helstrom Season 1 Episode 1 Review – ‘Mother’s Little Helpers’

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Martin Carr reviews the first episode of Helstrom… Showrunner Paul Zbyszewski has created in Helstrom something of substance. A dysfunctional family dynamic with far reaching ramifications, barely veiled contempt and more depth than Marvel television were banking on. Much of the success here comes down to casting which provides audiences with pitch perfect protagonists in […]

Movie Review – The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020)

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The Trial of the Chicago 7, 2020. Written and Directed by Aaron Sorkin. Starring Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Sacha Baron Cohen, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Michael Keaton, Frank Langella, John Carroll Lynch, Eddie Redmayne, Mark Rylance, Alex Sharp, Jeremy Strong, Daniel Flaherty, and Noah Robbins. SYNOPSIS: In 1969 for one hundred and fifty one days seven men went […]

Exclusive Interview – Director Mary Harron on Quibi’s The Expecting

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Currently in pre-production on the Ezra Miller Tim Roth double header Dali Land, Mary Harron is a writer-director with bite. Her insight and sardonic take on American Psycho which turns twenty this year, is hailed in the industry as a landmark movie. Since I Shot Andy Warhol this directorial force of nature has carved her […]

Lovecraft Country Season 1 Episode 9 Review – ‘Rewind 1921’

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Martin Carr reviews the penultimate episode of Lovecraft Country… Watchmen now has a companion piece of equal breadth, comparable depth and intellectual understatement. Time travel, transgender exploration and unrelenting discussions of race underpin this penultimate episode. Tulsa is the touchstone, historical massacres our blue touch paper and generational legacies once more at stake. This is […]

Exclusive Interview – Oswin Benjamin discusses The Forty-Year-Old-Version

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Oswin Benjamin has been in the music industry over ten years and was born in Brooklyn but raised upstate in Newsburg, New York. He has appeared and collaborated with musicians like Robert Glasper, Royce da 5’9, Lupe Fiasco, Chris Rivers and Styles P of The Lox. His role as D in The Forty-Year-Old-Version represents Oswin’s […]

Disney+ Review – The Right Stuff

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Martin Carr reviews The Right Stuff… Philip Kaufman’s adaptation of the Tom Wolfe novel is recognised as a classic. Broad, bold and epic in scale The Right Stuff which starred a young Dennis Quaid and Jeff Goldblum, and character actors of merit still holds up. Burnished earth, heat haze horizons and containing more sound barrier […]

Movie Review – The Forty-Year-Old Version (2020)

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The Forty-Year-Old Version, 2020. Written and Directed by Radha Blank Starring Radha Blank, Peter Kim, Oswin Benjamin, Imani Lewis, Reed Birney and Walker White. SYNOPSIS: A New York playwright (Radha Blank) is in search of an elusive success before she hits forty. Teaching theatre classes during the day and binge watching television shows at night, […]