Martin was one of The Age newspaper's film reviewers for 11 years until early 2006 and has worked as a film reviewer for ABC Radio National. He is currently co-editor of online international scholarly film journal Rouge. He also recently completed a PhD on film style, titled Towards a synthetic analysis of film style, through Monash University's Art and Design faculty.
He plans to launch his own website in 2007, containing writings from 1979 to the present.