Martin Carr reviews Black Mirror’s Striking Vipers… Charlie Brooker might be frenetic, prone to tangential leaps of inspiration and talking a mile a minute, but there is no way you could call the man boring. Video games, virtual reality and gender politics might seem like strange bedfellows, but somehow he draws it all together whilst […]
Black Mirror Season 5 Review – ‘Rachel, Jack and Ashley, Too’
Martin Carr reviews Black Mirror’s Rachel, Jack and Ashley, Too… Apart from the syntactic call back to a sweet natured provincial sex comedy worked into that title, this episode focuses on grief and how we process it. Similar thematically to Smithereens, Brooker explores the coping mechanisms we all employ and what comes from that. He […]
Black Mirror Season 5 Review – ‘Smithereens’
Martin Carr reviews Black Mirror’s Smithereens… There is an immediacy and rawness to this opening salvo which strips away any big budget gloss, any fanciful locations and merely focuses on character. London late last year is as drab, grey and soulless as the colour palette allows while a washed out Andrew Scott ferries people around […]
Good Omens Season 1 Finale Review – ‘The Last Day of the Rest of Their Lives’
Martin Carr reviews the season 1 finale of Good Omens… Cloven hoofed wreckers of military might, quartets of apocalyptic fury and bath tubs of blessed water all figure in this figurative finale to Good Omens. Simultaneously divine and hellishly pleasurable, it carries as much emotional heft as it does delicate moments of character reconciliation. A […]
Good Omens Season 1 Episode 5 Review – ‘The Doomsday Option’
Martin Carr reviews the fifth episode of Good Omens… Burning Bentleys, ring roads aflame and psychic charlatans absorbing celestial bodies are just some of the oddities which populate this penultimate episode as Armageddon warms up in the wings. With hells angels riding four abreast and causing convergences north of London, while witch finder sergeant majors […]
Good Omens Season 1 Episode 4 Review – ‘Saturday Morning Funtime’
Martin Carr reviews the fourth episode of Good Omens… To discover in a moment of stress and anxiety that good people are just fallacies is nothing short of devastating. That the Almighty is also not really working towards a specific goal or has anyone’s best interests at heart, is likely to get people, especially most […]
Good Omens Season 1 Episode 3 Review – ‘Hard Times’
Martin Carr reviews the third episode of Good Omens… Key moments in history should not as a rule be used to catch up with old friends. Just as discussing the flaws in an ineffable plan while our Lord God Almighty makes a hash of things is also frowned upon. Especially if you are sitting alongside […]
Good Omens Season 1 Episode 2 Review – ‘The Book’
Martin Carr reviews the second episode of Good Omens… If anything could be taken from Good Omens it would be a number of unpopular if obviously ideas. Religions in the main bend the truth to serve a purpose and are not beyond bending them back if that initial foray fails. It should also be noted […]
Movie Review – Framing John DeLorean (2019)
Framing John DeLorean, 2019. Directed by Don Argott and Sheena M. Joyce. Starring Alec Baldwin, Morena Baccarin, Josh Charles, Dean Winters, Michael Rispoli, Jason Jones, Dana Ashbrook, Josh Cooke, and Sean Cullen. SYNOPSIS: John DeLorean had the smarts of a high functioning industrialist combined with the courageous bravado of a flagrant risk taker. Charming, charismatic […]
Good Omens Season 1 Episode 1 Review – ‘In The Beginning’
Martin Carr reviews the first episode of Good Omens… Celestial mismanagement, a misplaced baby Beelzebub and friendships between biblical opponents provide the farcical foundations to this Pratchett Gaiman double header. A cult classic amongst fans of both authors capturing the unique tone of Good Omens was always going to prove crucial, alongside nailing those leading […]
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