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April 14, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
WWE TLC – Tables, Ladders & Chairs 2020: DVD
TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs 2020 WWE Madman This was just a solid PPV card from start to finish – no massive duds, nothing that totally blew me away but some quality matches, solid booking and it pretty much all made sense and went off hitch-free. Opener, a ladder match (always a great way to […]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 11, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
WWE Survivor Series 2020: DVD
Survivor Series 2020 WWE Madman One of the original PPV events from the old days – Survivor Series 2020 faces the adaptation or die model that the WWE now has well in place; video screens dangling in the arena in place of an actual live crowd. It’s bedded in now – we’re used to it. […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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.Archive
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 […]Archive
November 13, 2020 by Simon Sweetman