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Lovecraft Country Season 1 Episode 3 Review – ‘Holy Ghost’

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Martin Carr reviews the third episode of Lovecraft Country… If you need entertainment with a social conscience look no further than Lovecraft Country. Provocative, thought provoking and driven by powerful sensibilities we are beyond the point where this is anything other than exceptional. What they are doing week after week is taking conventional ingredients and […]

Movie Review – I’m Thinking of Ending Things (2020)

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I’m Thinking of Ending Things, 2020. Directed by Charlie Kaufman. Starring Jessie Buckley, Jesse Plemons, Toni Collette, David Thewlis, Colby Minifie, Ashlyn Alessi, Abby Quinn, Hadley Robinson, Dj Nino Carta, Teddy Coluca, Jason Ralph, and Guy Boyd. SYNOPSIS: A young woman (Jessie Buckley) is thinking of ending things on the way to meet her boyfriend’s […]

Exclusive Interview – Production Designer Melanie Jones on Bill & Ted: Face The Music

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Production designer Melanie Jones has worked on numerous projects in film and television across a twenty year career which includes The Purge and Whiplash. She recently took the time to talk to Martin Carr about her involvement with Bill & Ted: Face The Music. How did you first get approached for this project? I got […]

Lovecraft Country Season 1 Episode 2 Review – ‘Whitey’s On The Moon’

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Martin Carr reviews the second episode of HBO’s Lovecraft Country… That showrunner Misha Green has already sampled playwright and novelist James Baldwin should be some indication of her intentions. This time by baiting certain American sensibilities through the inclusion of spoken word poem Whitey’s On The Moon, Green has thrown down the gauntlet and done […]

Exclusive Interview – NOS4A2 showrunner Jami O’Brien

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Jami O’Brien has written in television for over a decade on shows including Fear the Walking Dead, Hell On Wheels and Flesh and Bone amongst others. As showrunner on NOS4A2 an AMC adaptation of Joe Hill’s novel, she has crafted a supremely nuanced show which concludes its second season this Sunday. Jami recently took time […]

Lovecraft Country Season 1 Episode 1 Review – ‘Sundown’

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Martin Carr reviews the series premiere of HBO’s Lovecraft Country… This is a show which honestly courts controversy from the opening frame. Fantastical elements clash with trench warfare in an audacious opening gambit, which mixes vibrant imagination with grounded realism. As a masterstroke of dreamscape narrative this statement of intent is merely an indication of […]

Exclusive Interview – Composer Michael Yezerski discusses The Tax Collector

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Michael Yezerski is an Australian composer living in Los Angeles who thrives on genre diversity. In conversation he is open and pragmatic about the creative process, his approach to collaboration and what drives him in terms of those musical choices. He recently took time out to talk to Martin Carr about his involvement in David […]

Perry Mason Season 1 Finale Review – ‘Chapter Eight’

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Martin Carr reviews Perry Mason’s season 1 finale… This is the finale we deserved with the outcome we were banking on. A narrative Penrose steps of perpetual complexity which repays in spades those who lasted the distance. This permanently silenced those doubters who lost faith until episode five, but have remained euphoric ever since. Plot […]

Exclusive Interview – Editor Morten Hojberg discusses Amazon Original Hanna

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With a career that has encompassed spates on The Crown, Top Boy, and collaborations on Nymphomaniac and Melancholia, Editor Morten Højbjerg could never be accused of creative stasis. He recently took time out to talk with Martin Carr about his long term involvement with Amazon’s Hanna. How collaborative was the editing process on Hanna? In […]

Exclusive Interview – VFX Supervisor Doug Larmour discusses The Alienist: Angel of Darkness

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Doug Larmour is an award winning VFX veteran who has collaborated with numerous industry A-listers. Past projects include The Revenant, Guardians of the Galaxy and Mission Impossible: Fallout to name but a few. He has only ventured into television a handful of times in his career one of which was for The Alienist, which garnered […]