Stephen Glass reviews How We Are Now… As well as opining on new releases and re-releases and DVD releases and all other releases, film writers, professional or otherwise, are afforded a great power to vouch for films and filmmakers with little exposure, which are perhaps only on the festival circuit. Even this launchpad leaves innumerable […]

 Martin Carr reviews Blacula – The Complete Collection… 18th Century prince Mamuwalde (William Marshall) is invited to meet Count Dracula (Charles Macaulay) to gain support for the abolitionist movement. In the midst of a heated debate it is revealed Dracula is an advocate of slavery, wishing to take Mamuwalde’s wife for his bride. Expressing his […]

Martin Carr reviews the fourth episode of Gotham season one… Gotham hits the ground running with low cost housing and clean water initiatives for Arkham Asylum seekers… Expectations are fragile things. In life as in art we heap our hopes upon reinvention, transformation and the ideal that things can be made better. And when those […]

Martin Carr reviews the fifth episode of Gotham season one… Gordon gets an unwelcome summons while sales of milk go through the roof in Gotham… Corruption in big business has been the backbone of many a good police drama. Whether that was Cagney and Lacey, Hillstreet Blues, NYPD Blue or any other variation you care […]

Martin Carr reviews Charles Ross’ One Man Lord of the Rings… One man, one microphone, a mauve jumpsuit and wrap around moccasins. With nothing more than that Canadian actor Charles Ross brings you Peter Jackson’s ‘Lord of the Rings’…… Throughout the ninety minutes and change Ross stalks his stage breathing life into Jackson’s world, through […]

Martin Carr reviews the season finale of The Strain… Time is ticking for Goodweather and his cohorts as they close in on The Master and his minions…. So here is a finale. The culmination of a series considered by many to be average and singled out, perhaps unfairly, for its mediocrity. That Guillermo del Toro, […]

As we venture down into the tunnels for episode eleven ‘The Strain’ attempts to get back on track….. I love a bit of subtext. That’s no euphemism, just a desire for something more from my television entertainment. To say that The Strain has provided more than its fair share of peaks and troughs is stating […]

My Old Lady, 2014. Written and Directed by Israel Horovitz. Starring Kevin Kline, Maggie Smith, Kristin Scott Thomas, Dominique Pinon and Stéphane Freiss. SYNOPSIS: An American inherits an apartment in Paris that comes with an unexpected resident. Mathias Gold (Kevin Kline) arrives in Paris riding the fumes of his last few dollars. Landing in the […]

Martin Carr reviews the twelfth episode of The Strain… As episode twelve concludes we are within sight of the finishing line. Season finales, cliff hangers and pivotal plot points loom like spectres in the night. Past and present coalesce in a Grimm fable of East European origin. A place where old wife’s tales are passed […]

Martin Carr reviews the eighth episode of The Strain…. Manhattan has become a haven for the infected. Creatures run rampant whilst a lone faction advances across the city. Finally in a deserted electrical supply store there is a meeting of minds over some UV lights. The true test of a television series and its writing […]