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March 8, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Shirley: DVD

Shirley Director: Josephine Decker Madman Movies about writers…they seldom work. But the good ones absolutely nail it. I think it’s because movies about writers need to be ‘small movies’ – and Hollywood likes to go large, so many of the films about legendary literary figures have overestimated the interest of the non-literary crowd. Or they’ve […]
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March 2, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Bill And Ted Face The Music: DVD

Bill And Ted Face The Music Director: Dean Parisot Madman If William S. “Bill” Preston, Esq. and Ted “Theodore” Logan had really faced the music they’d have deduced that a piss-weak sequel few were waiting for arriving like luke-warm soup some 30 years after it might have first been ordered was not actually non-heinous; was […]
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March 1, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

The Australian Dream: DVD

The Australian Dream Director: Daniel Gordon Madman This brilliant documentary, directed by Daniel Gordon from a script by Stan Grant, uses the story of AFL legend Adam Goodes – an inspiration on and off the field – to tell the wider stories of identity and racism. Goodes, winner of almost every single award going in […]
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February 26, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Inheritance: DVD

Inheritance Director: Vaughn Stein Madman Fresh from watching the terrible Force of Nature I couldn’t have managed a better double-feature of car-crash bad-scripting if I’d googled it…Inheritance is a fucking stupid mess also. But that seems a lot sadder given a strong cast and the potential (if you watch the trailer) for something to be […]
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February 25, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Force of Nature: DVD

Force of Nature Director: Michael Polish Lionsgate / Madman There are bad films where you leave them on and you start to laugh at how bad they are. They are unintentionally hilarious and then – somehow – spontaneously enjoyable. They are the type of entertainment they could have never planned to be. Then there are […]
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February 20, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

WWE Clash of Champions 2020: DVD

Clash of Champions 2020 Madman WWE I really enjoyed this Clash of Champions showcase overall. I’m settling into the non-crowd era where the screens are up in the background and the arena is super-quiet; its weird – but so is wrestling. And thus is life.
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January 4, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Todd Rundgren: A Wizard A True Star…Live!

Todd Rundgren A Wizard A True Star…Live! Purple Pyramid Music / Cleopatra Records Todd Rundgren – the maverick. Producer and one-man-band wunderkind! There’s so much to admire, from songwriter and singer to multi-instrumentalist, he goes above and beyond mere musicianship to being some sort of spiritual conduit for the full gamut of power-pop. But one […]
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November 18, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast # 239: Andrew Armitage (Aro Video)

Welcome to episode 239 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T and Yeastie Boys Now – as you probably know, as well as the usual platforms (this site, soundcloud, iTunes/Apple) you can now get to Sweetman Podcast on Spotify – follow it there and have it saved in your Spotify […]
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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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