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Star Trek: Picard Season 1 Episode 9 Review – ‘Et in Arcadia Ego – Part I’

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Martin Carr reviews the penultimate episode of Star Trek: Picard… This feels like a circling of the wagons, a call to arms and prelude to war. Obstacles both physical and otherwise are being put in place as Picard gears up for a season finale. Just enough distrust has been instilled, just enough doubt planted and […]

Star Trek: Picard Season 1 Episode 8 Review – ‘Broken Pieces’

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Martin Carr reviews the eighth episode of Star Trek: Picard… This is an episode of healing, assimilation and unfettered guilt that gives Santiago Cabrera free rein to assume numerous identities, whilst subtle reveals up the ante. From visual overload to Pagan ceremonial homage Picard drops back story, familial bombshells and Romulan subterfuge into a heady […]

Star Trek: Picard Season 1 Episode 7 Review – ‘Nepenthe’

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Martin Carr reviews the seventh episode of Star Trek: Picard… After last week Nepenthe brings us something slightly different with the return of old faces, on-going threats and more than a little subterfuge. Narek tracks Rios and company across space, Picard reunites with Riker while Soji distrusts anything within spitting distance as she comes to […]

Movie Review – Escape From Pretoria (2020)

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Escape From Pretoria, 2020. Directed by Francis Annan. Starring Daniel Radcliffe, Daniel Webber, and Ian Hart. SYNOPSIS: Arrested for fighting a corrupt South African regime, Tim Jenkin (Daniel Radcliffe) and Stephen Lee (Daniel Webber) are imprisoned. At odds with popular thinking and self-proclaimed prisoners of conscience they concoct an escape plan. That this opens with […]

Star Trek: Picard Season 1 Episode 6 Review – ‘The Impossible Box’

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Martin Carr reviews the sixth episode of Star Trek: Picard… In forty minutes of television Picard pilfers classic literature, employs franchise iconography and greases the dramatic wheels with style. Weaving in film homage, touching on past traumas and introducing emotional conflict ‘The Impossible Box’ proves a benchmark episode. Balancing Next Generation film franchise cameos, fan […]

Movie Review – The Last Movie Star (2017)

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The Last Movie Star, 2017. Written and directed by Adam Rifkin. Starring Burt Reynolds, Ariel Winter, Chevy Chase, Clark Duke, Ellar Coltrane, and Nikki Blonsky. SYNOPSIS: An aging film star is invited to receive a lifetime achievement award in Middle America… This rites of passage road trip movie written and directed by Adam Rifkin does […]

Star Trek: Picard Season 1 Episode 4 Review – ‘Absolute Candor’

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Martin Carr reviews the fourth episode of Star Trek: Picard… For the first time since Picard premiered things have slowed down. Not so much lacking momentum as treading water, in episode four we are treated to further back story which offers insight rather than progress. Flashbacks are employed to supply context, introduce specific belief systems […]

TV Review – Castle Rock Season 2

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Martin Carr reviews season 2 of Castle Rock… For anyone who read my reviews on Castle Rock last year I thank you, for everyone else where were you? Imagine a world where Stephen King characters co-existed, intertwined and every single kink was there to draw drama from. Season one introduced us to that drawing together […]

Kidding Season 2 Episode 2 Review – ‘Up, Down and Everything in Between’

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Martin Carr reviews the second episode of Kidding season 2… No one thought Frank Langella did comedy and yet his delivery in Kidding is both silly, sarcastic and simultaneously savage. Like the polished gems from Airplane II nothing hits harder than a respected actor delivering pitch perfect punchlines. Off kilter, obviously enjoying himself and sparking […]