One HEAT Minute: Episode #7 - Garth Franklin and Luke Buckmaster
It's episode seven of ONE HEAT MINUTE, the podcast that tackles HEAT - Michael Mann's 1995 crime saga - 60 seconds at a time and host Blake Howard is joined by a dynamic duo indeed. Editor of DarkHorizons.com Mr Garth Franklin returns. By his side, joining One HEAT Minute for the first time is premiere film critic for the Guardian Australia, The Daily Review and author of "Miller and Max: George Miller and the making of a film legend" the one and only Luke Buckmaster. In this minute we discuss the power and the economy of a waking up to medicate in order to face the world, Natalie Portman's desperation to find her barrettes and naked wall sized man murals.
GUEST BIOS
Luke Buckmaster is a writer, film and TV critic and public speaker.
He is currently writer and film critic for The Guardian Australia, writer and film critic for Daily Review and a contributor to publications such as BBC online and the website of the Australian Centre of the Moving Image (ACMI). Luke has contributed to a wide range of other publications including VICE, The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, Senses of Cinema, Arts Hub, Screen Hub, Filmink and The Big Issue. Luke has lectured about cinema for LaTrobe University and in 2010 won an Australian Film Critics Association writing award for his review of I’m Still Here. In 2014 and 2015 he presented digital literacy workshops on the topic of film and TV in social media for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
Find him on Twitter here.
Garth Franklin - Editor-in-Chief, Darkhorizons.com
One of the very first online entertainment journalists, Sydney-based Garth Franklin has clocked up more hours, stories and experience in this field than the entire staff of various other sites combined. Respected and well-regarded amongst his peers, Franklin created and designed the very first Dark Horizons® incarnation on geocities.com back in April 1996 and has steered it through at least four major re-designs, two recessions, hundreds of interviews, thousands of screenings, and tens of thousands of articles.
Garth’s work over the past nearly twenty years has taken him all over the globe to places like Auckland, Albuquerque, Atlanta, Bangkok, Baton Rouge, Berlin, Calgary, Chicago, Dallas, Edmonton, Harare, Hwange, Honolulu, Istanbul, Johannesburg, Las Vegas, London, Los Angeles, Melbourne, Nadi, Naples, New York City, Paris, Perth, Prague, Rome, Rotorua, San Diego, San Francisco, Siem Reap, Singapore, Surfer’s Paradise, Suva, Toronto, Vancouver, Venice and Wellington. He has regular consulted with and/or worked alongside publicists, managers, producers, studio VPs, agents, filmmakers and celebrities in the US, UK, Europe and Australia.
Franklin, who is also a ‘Top Critic’ on Rotten Tomatoes and member of the Australian Film Critics Association, has also contributed columns for several outlets including Empire Magazine Australia, Cinescape Magazine and AOL, served as a film critic on both Foxtel’s Channel V and ABC Radio 702 with Angela Catterns, contributed content or towards pieces for numerous outlets ranging from IGN to USA Today to the U.S. Armed Forces Radio and Television Service, and guested on several podcasts including The Leaky Cauldron, Smodcast’s Team Jack, Pod Save Our Screen and Hell is for Hyphenates.
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