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Martin Gray

Martin is a journalist with a love of writing in the first person. It's me, me, me, really, it is. I like thrillers, horror and musicals. On TV it's police procedurals, thrillers and the Gilmore Girls, plus any old MTM shows. I did a film and English Studies degree and learned terms like 'non-gender specific, pre-Oedipal castration complex neo-realist text'. I think someone was anticipating Marley and Me. I don't write enough for this fine site as I'm often blogging on my comics review page.

We have 60 reviews by Martin Gray in the database: read them here.

Latest Film Reviews

  • Snoopy And Charlie Brown: The Peanuts Movie (2015)
    Review preview for Snoopy And Charlie Brown: The Peanuts Movie

    If you're a fan of the strips, there's nothing much new here, but that's part of the charm - seeing favourite sequences come to 'life'.

    Martin Gray · 3.5 out of 5
    The firm friends embark on a dual adventure.
  • American Horror Story: Asylum - The Complete Second Season (2012)
    Review preview for American Horror Story: Asylum - The Complete Second Season

    The ingredients are perfect for an over-the-top frightfest, as monsters of the inhuman and human variety fight for control of the hospital, and the residents' souls.

    Martin Gray · 4 out of 5
    A reporter looking for a scoop gets impounded with patients at a mental institution.
  • Song For Marion (2012)
    Review preview for Song For Marion

    Truth be told, I wept buckets.

    Martin Gray · 4 out of 5
    An elderly man struggles to deal with his terminally ill wife's desire to be part of her local choir.
  • The Woman In Black (2012)
    Review preview for The Woman In Black

    The slow-building tension of the stage play is still there, but the added narrative space sees room for for Grand Guignol shocks aplenty.

    Martin Gray · 4 out of 5
    Harry Potter and the Spooky Old House? Not quite. Out on re-issue.
  • The Green Hornet (2011)
    Review preview for The Green Hornet

    What we get insults the intelligence - no one would follow Britt Reid into a donut shop, never mind a life or death battle.

    Martin Gray · 2.5 out of 5
    After his father dies a man decides to fight crime.
  • Percy Jackson And The Lightning Thief (2010)
    Review preview for Percy Jackson And The Lightning Thief

    This is an entertaining time passer which should keep the kids happy.

    Martin Gray · 3 out of 5
    Teenage gods and monsters - classical, but not a classic
  • The Wolfman (2010)
    Review preview for The Wolfman

    The Wolfman is no one's definition of High Art, but it's great craft.

    Martin Gray · 3 out of 5
    Wolf bites man. Man bites everyone else.
  • Nativity! (2009)
    Review preview for Nativity!

    Martin Freeman is such a great actor that no matter how outlandish the film's events, it's grounded.

    Martin Gray · 4 out of 5
    Can a school's Christmas play succeed when it's directed by The Grinch?
  • The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009)
    Review preview for The Twilight Saga: New Moon

    If you're an emotional teenage girl, take a tissue. If you're not, take a cushion, for this is a film that lasts about three days. And a sickbag.

    Martin Gray · 3 out of 5
    Can love conquer all when your boyfriend's a vampire?
  • The Fourth Kind (2009)
    Review preview for The Fourth Kind

    An absorbing time passer.

    Martin Gray · 3 out of 5
    A widow gets close to the truth about alien abductions. Too close...

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