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June 27, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Willy’s Wonderland: DVD
Willy’s Wonderland (Blu-Ray) Director: Kevin Lewis Madman / Screen Media Films Here’s how it works now: Someone tells you about a film where a quiet drifter-type is conned into a gig being a janitor at a now condemned theme park-styled restaurant. Chuck E. Cheese with broken-down animatronics. A clown show with no show today, tomorrow […]Archive
June 25, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
WWE Elimination Chamber 2021: DVD
Elimination Chamber 2021 WWE Madman February’s Elimination Chamber event is now on DVD and if you’re a fan of these sorts of events – the big Elimination Chamber contests are of course epic by design – then you won’t be disappointed. Both Chamber bouts are great – the first one particularly. Great spots, excellent execution, […]Archive
June 23, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
My New EBook: Wrestling Is Fake. That’s What Makes It So Real – Selected Grapplings (2005-2015)
I’ve just published my new e-book, my third. This is the first one that’s not about music at all. This is a selection of my various writings about pro-wrestling. I’ve fallen in and out with the “sport” over the last three decades, but I can’t quite shake my fandom, certainly don’t want to ignore my early […]Archive
June 4, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Movies of My Life # 19: The Apostle
I sat in a theatre alone watching The Apostle. Late 1990s. I’ve always loved going to movies by myself – are you there to talk to other people? I started going to movies by myself when I was in high school. I’ll happily go with a friend or in a group – but having no […]Archive
May 18, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Chick Fight: DVD
Chick Fight Director: Paul Leyden Madman You can almost imagine the pitch meeting. Guys, of course, talking about Fight Club and someone says, “what if we made it funny and sexy?” Chick Fight is, of course, neither. Because men that presumably met women for the very first time when casting and shooting the film, made […]Archive
May 18, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
WWE Best of 24 – 2020: DVD
WWE Best of 24 – 2020 WWE Madman This best of 24 DVD set collects up a few capsule documentaries from the WWE Network’s show 24 – the last couple of years the network has been anthologised with a compilation set cherry-picking some of the best content.Archive
May 3, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Kajillionaire: DVD
Kajillionaire Director: Miranda July Plan B Pictures / Focus Films Across books and movies – and various performance-art pieces, her one-woman shows and talks – Miranda July has built a worldview through using the lens of empathy to consider the largely unimaginable, the downright quirky, the weird and profoundly wonderful; there’s a darker edge in […]Archive
April 9, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Fatman: DVD
Fatman (Blu-Ray) Directors: Eshom and Ian Nelms Madman Elton John has made more bad albums than good. That’s a fact. But of course he still shows the chops, those classic albums have their magical moments and he’s fondly remembered as being, well, ‘good’. To endure one of his worst songs is something, but you can […]Archive
March 31, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Tower of Power: 50 Years of Funk & Soul, Live at The Fox Theater – Oakland, CA – June 2018
Tower of Power 50 Years of Funk & Soul: Live at The Fox Theater – Oakland, CA – June 2018 Artistry Music In 2018 one of the world’s great live bands, Tower of Power, hit their hometown stage to celebrate its 50th birthday. Now we get to hear that set of recordings. Taken from a […]Archive
March 30, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Poem: We Went To Buy A DVD Player
I remember this one time we drove around town looking for a cheap DVD player. You could buy them, back then, for about $100 if you were lucky. You’d be luckier still a year or two later, they were $20 in the supermarket. But this was back when you might still get ripped off eh. […]Archive
March 17, 2021 by Simon Sweetman