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November 16, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

The Postcard Killings: DVD

The Postcard Killings Director: Alison Ellwood GFC Podcard / Good Films Collective / Hindsight Media / Madman Based on a bestselling James Patterson crime novel (is there any other kind?) The Postcard Killings arrives on DVD and blu-ray about a decade after the book. And though I’ve not read the source material I had fairly […]
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November 16, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Laurel Canyon: DVD

Laurel Canyon Director: Alison Ellwood Canyon Films, LLC / Madman It’s hard to see this as anything more than a boomer circle-jerk: Oooh, we had the best music didn’t we… Laurel Canyon is this near-mythical place in songs, in albums, in bands’ biographies. It is real. It was a place; a place where a large […]
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November 13, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Alive: DVD

Alive Director: Rob Grant Vamanos Films / Madman Alive is by no means great, but it can be quite good. It starts off feeling like a run-of-the-mill torture-porn horror, and yes, I’m almost embarrassed by how jaded and bored I was when I delivered that line…almost…
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November 11, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Above Suspicion: DVD

Above Suspicion Director: Philip Noyce Colleen Camp Productions / Sierra/Affinity / Madman You’ve either got a great story or you’re a great storyteller, I fixate on this. Obviously, for audiences and writers the dream is both. But you can get away without the other so long as you have one of them nailed right down. […]
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November 9, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

WWE Summerslam 2020: DVD

Summerslam 2020 WWE Madman Summerslam is one of the once-heralded “Big Four” – the original run of PPV events that powered the then-WWF and now-WWE through the year. You had the Royal Rumble at the start, then the big show – Wrestlemania – Summerslam was the mid-year show that settled scores set up at the […]
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November 6, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Dolly Parton – 50 Years At The Opry: DVD

Dolly Parton: 50 Years At The Opry Director: Ashley S Gorman Man Alive Entertainment / Madman It’s been a huge year or two for Dolly Parton – a range of celebratory docos, biopics and biographical stories including a brilliant podcast series. Dolly is always there. And for many of us she’s one of music’s true […]
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November 4, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Ava: DVD

Ava Director: Tate Taylor Voltage Pictures / Freckle Films / Vertical Entertainment / Madman Ava starts off okay – but boy does it slide. And quickly. And when I say it starts off okay I mean okay in a same-old-story, lazy-night-on-the-couch, female-assassin action-film way. You’ve got your trackies on and your expectations low. Unfortunately by […]
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November 3, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

The Goodies – The Complete LWT Series: DVD

The Goodies – The Final Series The Complete LWT Series Madman In one of the saddest “Victory Laps” of all time (of all time) The Goodies took their unique brand of madness and mirth (or “Monty Python for kids” as one wag dubbed it) from an 8-season run throughout the 1970s with the BBC to […]
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October 16, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Lazy Susan: DVD

Lazy Susan Director: Nick Peet SHOUT! FACTORY   Lazy Susan is, quite extraordinarily, the worst comedy film you might ever see. In that it’s only joke – pretty much the literal lone ‘joke’ – is that the female character of Susan is played by a man. That man is Sean Hayes (Will & Grace) who […]
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October 15, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

WWE Best Main Events of The Decade 2010-2020: DVD

Best Main Events of The Decade 2010-2020 WWE Madman The WWE loves these lazy package-jobs; parcel up the highlights from the things they already shipped out to shelves a while back. Well, why not I guess, easy to do. But as they’re now their own network in service to themselves with rolling ads and aiming […]
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October 14, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

WWE The Horror Show at Extreme Rules 2020: DVD

The Horror Show at Extreme Rules WWE Madman I’m part-time with this shit, you know that if you’ve read any of my pro-wrestling reviews across the last few years. So you can absolutely take anything I say with a grain of salt. I’m occasionally blown away by the ‘show’ aspect, often underwhelmed and either way […]
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October 5, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Villain: DVD

Villain Director: Philip Barantini Vertigo Releasing / Saban Films Craig Fairbrass is a good actor – dependable. He does the British tough guy thing well; baddie or heart of gold gangster, the villain with no soul or the villain trying to go straight. He’s done a bunch of direct to video things in the later […]
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