Martha Lucas

Martha Lucas writes about cinema, theatre and books for MCM from Seville, Spain. A novelist in progress, she reads film through a literary and theatrical lens — language, dramaturgy and how a story survives the move from page or stage to screen.

Someone Has to Know - Netflix

2 months ago

Someone Has to Know on Netflix is about a priest who held the answer to a murder for 25 years, and a Chile that let him

At Home With The Furys

2 months ago

At Home With The Furys on Netflix Season 2 is not a celebrity show. It is a study in what happens when identity has nowhere to land

Turn of the Tide Netflix

2 months ago

Turn of the Tide on Netflix ends by asking if a community can make its own justice without becoming what hurt it

Gangs of Galicia Netflix

3 months ago

Gangs of Galicia on Netflix is what Galicia built when Spain looked the other way

Feel My Voice - Netflix

3 months ago

Feel My Voice on Netflix: Eletta’s voice belongs only to her. That is why leaving will cost everything.

The Bad Guys: The Series

3 months ago

The Bad Guys on Netflix were always becoming something better than they knew

3 months ago

Breeding season inversion: how birds are overriding the ancestral clock

53 Sundays

3 months ago

Three siblings and a father they can no longer manage — Gay’s finest film since Truman

The Predator of Seville

3 months ago

The Prince of Seville ran a five-star predation operation

3 months ago

The Fiction That Resists the Algorithm: Desire, Disorder, and the New Avant-Garde

That Night - Netflix

3 months ago

The Gilded Labyrinth of Blood: The Dissolution of Truth in That Night

Strangers in the Park - Netflix

4 months ago

The Cinematics of Remembrance: Brandoni, Blanco, and the Dignity of the Invisible

The TikTok Killer - Netflix

4 months ago

The TikTok Killer: The biological trail that ended three decades of impunity