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Marvel’s What If? – Episode 3 Review

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Martin Carr reviews the third episode of Marvel’s What If…? The Avengers coming together was a turning point for the MCU. That is when a disparate string of blockbuster films coalesced into something else. This is when comic book franchises turned into big business. Audiences were enthralled, Disney expressed an interest and studios started running […]

Marvel’s What If…? – Season 1 Episode 2 Review

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Martin Carr reviews the second episode of Marvel’s What If…? Episode two of Marvel’s What If…? comes with a certain degree of poignancy built into its fabric, as this is the last work Chadwick Boseman ever did. From the outset, his rich embodiment of T’Challa comes through effortlessly. Intonation, self-assurance and an innate dignity make […]

Movie Review – Rare Beasts (2019)

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Rare Beasts, 2019. Directed by Billie Piper. Starring Billie Piper, Leo Bill, Kerry Fox, Toby Woolf, and David Thewlis. SYNOPSIS: Mandy (Billie Piper) is a career driven single mother with relationship needs. Pete (Leo Bill) is her victim of choice in this dark fable on contemporary dating. Billie Piper has been many things over the […]

Exclusive Interview – VFX Supervisor Wayne England on Marvel’s Loki

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In a twenty year career, FuseFX’s VFX Supervisor Wayne England has worked on everything from American Horror Story to HBO’s Watchmen. With Marvel’s Loki, which completed its first season recently, he was faced with some fresh and unique challenges. He recently sat down with Martin Carr to go into more detail, delving deep into this new […]

Amazon TV Review – Nine Perfect Strangers

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Martin Carr reviews Amazon series Nine Perfect Strangers… The talent behind this Hulu original, making its way onto Amazon this August beggars belief. Writer John-Henry Butterworth penned Edge of Tomorrow, Get On Up and Le Mans ‘66. Director Jonathan Levine was behind teenage zombie rom-com Warm Bodies, comedy drama 50/50 and had a hand in Seth Rogen hit […]

Movie Review – CODA (2021)

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CODA, 2021. Directed by Sian Heder Starring Emilia Jones, Marlee Matlin, Troy Kotsur, Daniel Durant, Amy Forsyth and Eugenio Derbez. SYNOPSIS: Ruby (Emilia Jones) works in the family fishing business, balancing her ambitions with commitments closer to home. As a CODA, she bridges the divide for her mother, father and brother between her and the […]

Marvel’s What If…? – Season 1 Episode 1 Review

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Martin Carr review the premiere episode of Marvel’s What If…? Breaking new ground on your first animated series is one thing, shaping it around a preposition which offers infinite possibilities with no concrete resolutions is quite another. However, that is the route Marvel has decided to take with the new series Marvel’s What If…?. That […]

TV Review – Chapelwaite

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Martin Carr reviews the Epix original series Chapelwaite…. If Merchant Ivory had made Salem’s Lot, this might have been the end result – a heady mix of gothic horror, small town gossip and people looking peaky, whilst being awfully polite. This prequel to King’s horror classic, based on the short story Jerusalem’s Lot, bides its time […]

Apple TV+ Review – Mr. Corman

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Martin Carr reviews the Apple original series, Mr. Corman… Joseph Gordon-Levitt has gone all in with Apple, offering up a character piece jam packed with contemporary angst. Unfortunately, as Mr. Corman this genuinely engaging actor may well divide popular opinion. Resentful of his job as a fifth grade school teacher, mooning after an ex-girlfriend and suffering […]

Movie Review – Twist (2021)

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Twist, 2021. Directed by Martin Owen. Starring Raff Law, Michael Caine, Lena Headey, Franz Drameh, Sophie Simnett, David Walliams, Rita Ora, Leigh Francis, Noel Clarke, and Jason Maza. SYNOPSIS: Fagin (Michael Caine), Dodge (Rita Ora) and Sykes (Lena Headey) are plucked from the pages of the Charles Dickens novel and dropped into contemporary London. With […]