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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 – Jake McDorman on playing Alan Shepard in The Right Stuff

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Martin Carr chats with Jake McDorman about his role as astronaut Alan Shepard in The Right Stuff… Actor Jake McDorman will be known to global audiences for his work in numerous high profile television adaptations. From Watchmen to Limitless and Murphy Brown to Shameless his face will be familiar to audiences worldwide. For The Right […]

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, […]

Exclusive Interview – AnnaSophia Robb discusses Quibi’s The Expecting

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AnnaSophia Robb has been acting for sixteen of her twenty six years, making this thoughtful and self-effacing actress a veteran before she reaches thirty. Featuring in everything from Tim Burton’s Charlie and The Chocolate Factory through to The Way Way Back alongside Sam Rockwell and Steve Carrell, her career has been shaped by considered choices. […]

Movie Review – Books of Blood (2020)

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Books of Blood, 2020. Directed by Brannon Braga. Starring Britt Robertson, Rafi Gavron, Freda Foh Sheen, Nicholas Campbell, Kenji Fitzgerald, Paige Turco, Saad Siddiqui, Anna Friel and Brett Rickaby. SYNOPSIS: Tales of terror, stories etched in skin and a book guarded by the dead await anyone foolish enough to go searching for answers. These campfire […]

Exclusive Interview – Production Designer Barry Robison discusses One Night In Miami

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Production designer Barry Robison thrives on challenge, as illustrated by the eclectic selection of projects he has worked on over a thirty year career. His recent involvement with TNT’s Snowpiercer brought a graphic novel to life on the small screen, whilst expanding on its feature film companion. Wolverine: Origins, Candyman: Farewell To The Flesh and […]

Lovecraft Country Season 1 Episode 8 – ‘Jig-A-Bobo’

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Martin Carr reviews the eighth episode Lovecraft Country… Brutal beatings, reams of barbed wire and a community in mourning work in opposition to an Eighties soundtrack. Demonic twins from Uncle Tom’s Cabin haunt the steps of a Freeman member, while Hippolyta remains at large. Elsewhere runes and rituals clash with time travel and racial unrest […]