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Movie Review – Cosmic Sin (2021)

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Cosmic Sin, 2021.Directed by Edward Drake. Starring Frank Grillo, Bruce Willis, Brandon Thomas Lee, C.J. Perry, Corey Large, Lochlyn Munro, Costas Mandylor and Adelaide Kane.SYNOPSIS:The year is 2524 and Earth has had colonies on Mars for centuries. After a catastrophic first contact with alien life, General Eron Ryle (Frank Grillo) calls on disgraced General James […]

Movie Review – Boss Level (2021)

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Boss Level, 2021.Directed by Joe Carnahan. Starring Frank Grillo, Mel Gibson, Naomi Watts, Will Sasso, Annabelle Wallis, Sheaun McKinney, Selina Lo, Michelle Yeoh, Ken Jeong and Rio Grillo.SYNOPSIS:An ex-Delta Force officer (Frank Grillo) is trapped in a perpetual time loop, reliving the same over and over again.Boss Level starts with a bang then throws in bags […]

Movie Review – Pixie (2020)

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Pixie, 2020.Directed by Barnaby Thompson. Starring Olivia Cooke, Ben Hardy, Daryl McCormack, Fra Fee, Rory Fleck Byrne, Pat Shortt, Frank McCafferty, Esme Thompson, Chris Walley, Colm Meaney, Dylan Moran and Alec Baldwin.SYNOPSIS:Pixie (Olivia Cooke) is living with gangsters, manipulating the affections of young men and dreaming of San Francisco without any hangers on. In this […]

American Gods Season 3 Episode 7 Review – ‘Fire and Ice’

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Martin Carr reviews the seventh episode of American Gods season 3…This feels like a reckoning. A coalition of opposing forces gathered en mass for the sole execution of one singular purpose. Retribution brought forth by eternal deities and rained down upon one specific individual. Scavengers are closing in ready to extol a price upon one […]

Movie Review – The Winter Lake (2020)

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The Winter Lake, 2020.Directed by Phil Sheerin. Starring Emma Mackey, Charlie Murphy, Mark McKenna, Michael McElhatton and Anson Boon.SYNOPSIS:Elaine (Charlie Murphy) and Tom (Anson Boon) have moved to a remote family farmhouse. Neighbours Ward (Michael McElhatton) and Holly (Emma Mackey) soon become embroiled in the lives of these newcomers, as Tom stumbles on something horrific […]

Exclusive Interview – Production Designer Michael T. Perry discusses Promising Young Woman

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Michael T. Perry is a veteran of more than thirty projects spanning over thirty years. He has worked on everything from Sweet Valley High through to It Follows, continuing to leave his own indelible mark in both film and television. With Promising Young Woman, for which Michael has just received a Director’s Guild Award nomination, he creates a […]

Marvel’s WandaVision – Episode 8 Review

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Martin Carr reviews the penultimate episode of Marvel’s WandaVision…This retrofitted Charles Dickens fable repurposed for the Marvel multiverse is savvy, subtle and entirely in keeping with its progressive cannon. Playing like a narrative homage to that Endgame changer, episode eight provides back story and flexes its intellectual story telling muscle. Central to this conceit is […]

American Gods Season 3 Episode 6 Review – ‘Conscience of the King’

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Martin Carr reviews the sixth episode of American Gods season 3…There is something inherently humanising about a love story which stretches back centuries. Weathered by war and forever smitten by one affair of the heart, ‘Conscience of the King’ revels in the one true weakness of all entities. As a grizzled Odin and his elegant […]

Showtime Review – Supervillain: The Making of Tekashi 6ix9ine

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Martin Carr reviews Showtime’s documentary Supervillain: The Making of Tekashi 6ix9ine…This three-part documentary directed by Karam Gill explores the cultural impact of Daniel Hernandez, known globally as Brooklyn born rapper Tekashi69, and charts his rise from obscurity into a media spotlight of his own making. Using intimate footage and talking head soundbites from close family, music […]