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Netflix Review – Criminal Season 2

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Martin Carr reviews season 2 of Netflix’s Criminal… Criminal changed the format for police procedurals by challenging our preconceptions. Extended monologues, voyeuristic interrogations and audience complicity drew people in without scenery chewing. For the guest star suspects including David Tennant and Hayley Atwell in season one, it provided opportunities for a measured masterclass in acting […]

Comic Book Review – Blade Runner 2019: Off World

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Hasitha Fernando reviews Blade Runner 2019: Volume 2 – Off World… Blade Runner 2019: Off World continues the story of former Blade Runner Aahna ‘Ash’ Ashina and Cleo Selwyn, as they wrestle with the innumerable challenges of living in an off-world colony. But little do they know of the troubled times that lie ahead. One […]

Movie Review – Barking Dogs Never Bite (2000)

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Barking Dogs Never Bite, 2000. Directed by Bong Joon-ho. Starring Bae Doona, Lee Sung-jae, Kim Ho-jung, Byun Hee-bong, Go Soo-hee and Kim Roi-ha. SYNOPSIS: An out-of-work professor wages a violent crusade against noisy dogs in his apartment complex. It’s fitting, in many ways, that Bong Joon-ho’s idiosyncratic first feature Barking Dogs Never Bite hit cinema […]

Movie Review – I’ve Got Issues (2020)

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I’ve Got Issues, 2020. Written and Directed by Steve Collins. Starring Macon Blair, Claire Titelman, Maria Thayer, Sam Eidson, John Merriman, Paul Gordon, Randy E. Aguebor, Byron Brown, Courtney Davis, and Jim Gaffigan. SYNOPSIS: A comedy about despair and what to do with it. Let’s get one thing out of the way upfront for anyone […]

Movie Review – The Secrets We Keep (2020)

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The Secrets We Keep, 2020. Directed by Yuval Adler. Starring Noomi Rapace, Joel Kinnaman, Chris Messina, Amy Seimetz, Victoria Hill, Lucy Faust, David Maldonado, Ritchie Montgomery, Ed Amatrudo, Jeff Pope, Miluette Nalin, Frank J. Monteleone, Jackson Dean Vincent, and Madison Paige Jones. SYNOPSIS: In post-WWII America, a woman, rebuilding her life in the suburbs with […]

Movie Review – Bill & Ted Face the Music (2020)

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Bill & Ted Face the Music, 2020. Directed by Dean Parisot. Starring Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, William Sadler, Samara Weaving, Brigette Lundy-Paine, Anthony Carrigan, Kid Cudi, Jayma Mays, Erinn Hayes, Hal Landon Jr., Beck Bennett, Amy Stoch, Kristen Schaal, Holland Taylor, and Jillian Bell. SYNOPSIS: Two decades on and no further along in their quest […]

TV Review – The Third Day

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Martin Carr reviews The Third Day… This co-production between HBO and Sky executive produced in part by Brad Pitt is an intriguing Celtic cautionary tale. Cult like communities cut off by tidal currents combine with Pagan sacrifice and inverted Christian traditions to create a heady brew. Written by Dennis Kelly who also penned Amazon’s Utopia […]

Movie Review – Rocks (2019)

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Rocks, 2019. Directed by Sarah Gavron. Starring Bukky Bakray, Kosar Ali, D’angelou Osei Kissiedu, Shaneigha-Monik Greyson, Ruby Stokes, Tawheda Begum, Afi Okaidja, Anastasia Dymitrow, Sarah Niles, Layo-Christina Akinlude, and Sharon D. Clarke. SYNOPSIS: A young teenage girl finds herself struggling to take care of herself and her younger brother after being abandoned by their single […]

Movie Review – Antebellum (2020)

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Antebellum, 2020. Written and Directed by Gerard Bush and Christopher Renz. Starring Janelle Monáe, Robert Aramayo, Kiersey Clemons, Jack Huston, Gabourey Sidibe, Eric Lange, Marque Richardson, Lily Cowles, Grace Junot, T.C. Matherne, Tongayi Chirisa, Devyn A. Tyler, Choppy Guillotte, Betsy Borrego, and Jena Malone. SYNOPSIS: Slaves suffer abuse at the hands of Confederate plantation owners, […]