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Scream: The TV Series Season 2 Episode 9 Review – ‘The Orphanage’

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Martin Carr reviews the ninth episode of Scream: The TV Series season 2… Over the course of ‘The Orphanage’ there is some serious film referencing beyond that obvious tagline, which includes the eponymous Phantasm series and B-movie mainstay April Fool’s Day. This of course remains the charm of a series for anyone who ever loved […]

Scream: The TV Series Season 2 Episode 10 Review – ‘The Vanishing’

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Martin Carr reviews the tenth episode of Scream: The TV Series season 2… This week we are treated to references outside the horror genre, which for someone like me who has instant recall is a whole barrel of fun. Aside from the tagline we get direct and indirect hat tipping for Dirty Harry, Buried and […]

Scream: The TV Series Season 2 Episode 8 Review – ‘Village of the Damned’

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Martin Carr reviews the eighth episode of Scream: The TV Series season 2… Some smoking remains and the decapitated right hand of a known philanderer form the basis of our latest trip to Lakewood. As further suspicions are raised, fingers pointed and bodies pile up, Scream fulfils another in a large number of tick lists […]

Wayward Pines Season 2 Episode 10 Review – ‘Bedtime Story’

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Martin Carr reviews the season two finale of Wayward Pines… The pigeons have come home to roost in a season finale which delivers where others have failed. Theological discussions about humanity, a person’s right for free choice and self-sacrifice fly around amongst emotional recriminations. With the inevitable threads beginning to unravel Patric finally steps up […]

Preacher Season 1 Episode 8 Review – ‘El Valero’

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Martin Carr reviews the eighth episode of Preacher… Things came to an intestinal head last week with El Valero’s combining form and one pissed off Preacher holed up in his chapel of love. Hallucinations, theological discussions and mad beggars on diggers turned episode eight into yet another what the hell happened sort of affair. Combining […]

Movie Review – Choke (2020)

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Choke, 2020. Directed by Gregory Hatanaka. Starring Shane Ryan, Scott Butler, Sarah Brine, Lisa London and Sal Landi. SYNOPSIS The lines between reality and fiction, and good and bad blur when both a nihilistic detective and a serial killer’s affairs with a mysterious girl overlap. When actor/director/all round auteur Shane Ryan decided to shoot Amateur Porn […]

Movie Review – Legacy of Lies (2020)

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Legacy of Lies, 2020. Directed by Adrian Bol. Starring Scott Adkins, Honor Kneafsey, Andrea Vasilou, Yuliia Sobol and Anna Butkevich. SYNOPSIS: An ex-MI6 agent is thrown back into the world of espionage and high stakes to uncover the shocking truth about operations conducted by unknown secret services. The main man of action, Scott Adkins, returns with […]

Movie Review – Max Reload and The Nether Blasters (2020)

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Max Reload and The Nether Blasters, 2020. Directed by Scott Conditt and Jeremy Tremp. Starring Tom Plumley, Hassie Harrison, Joey Morgan, Lukas Gage, Joseph D. Reitman, Richard Lippert, Greg Grunberg, Kevin Smith, Lin Shaye, Martin Kove, Jesse Kove and Wil Wheaton. SYNOPSIS: A small town video game store clerk must go from zero to hero after […]

Scream Season 2 Episode 7 Review – ‘Let The Right One In’

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Martin Carr reviews the seventh episode of Scream: The TV Series season 2… Unlike other shows Scream is a good old fashioned pastiche to its very marrow. There are no genre boundaries being traversed, no wild revelations or people trying too hard in the drama department. This is just predictable slaughter on a weekly basis […]