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March 14, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
WWE Survivor Series 2019: DVD
Survivor Series 2019 Madman WWE It’s the 33rd version of the Survivor Series PPV event and it worked well with WWE pitting the three brands – RAW, Smackdown and NXT – against each other as a way of modernising the traditional Survivor Series-styled team match-ups.Archive
January 21, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
WWE Hell In A Cell 2019: DVD
Hell In A Cell 2019 WWE Madman It seems funny to even be discussing this Hell In A Cell event after that fucking ending! So I’ll start there. Chants of refund and rematch, boos galore and then chanting “AEW” – which is All Elite Wrestling (basically Ring of Honor via TNA for 2019/20). So what […]Archive
December 10, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
WWE Getting Rowdy – The Unreleased Matches of Roddy Piper: DVD
WWE Getting Rowdy – The Unreleased Matches of Roddy Piper WWE Madman Roddy Piper was one of the true legends of pro-wrestling; a man who succeeded due to his charisma and character. He was a basic brawler at best, and not big. But he had a motormouth, seemed genuinely unpredictable and was funny-af. He was […]Archive
December 8, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
WWE Summerslam 2019: DVD
Summerslam 2019 WWE Madman There was some good, bad and ugly here which is how it goes with WWE pay-per-view events, how it’s always been really – but certainly in recent years the idea of a classic card with very little in the way of filler seems a distant memory. And this, the 32nd iteration […]Archive
August 20, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
WWE John Cena – Hustle, Loyalty, Respect: DVD
John Cena: Hustle, Loyalty, Respect WWE Madman John Cena is a big-match player. He takes the pain. He bounces back. He banters well – with the audience and with in-ring smack-talk; he’s a promo-master and he’s cleverly worked out how to own his line-call persona of being an over with the kids babyface that sells […]Archive
July 30, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Destroyer: DVD
Destroyer Director: Karyn Kusama Madman Destroyer is so well named – it should wreck you. The performances – in particular Nicole Kidman’s tour-de-force, the writing, the filming, the shape of the film, it’s all a slow-burn thrill-ride. And if there’s a best supporting player to Kidman’s scene-stealing/chewing/destroying role it’s the overall grit of the film, its dirty soul, its […]Archive
July 2, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Vox Lux: DVD
Vox Lux Director: Brady Corbet Madman Vox Lux comes from actor/director Brady Corbet. It’s the 30-year-old’s second full-length feature and it’s something of a Sunset Blvd. for the me/#metoo generation; a 21st century masterpiece. Spanning 1999-2017 and narrated – brilliantly, exacerbating the fable-like quality of it – by Willem Dafoe, the film tells the coming of age and then comeback of Celeste Montgomery. Played […]Archive
June 30, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
WWE Wrestlemania 35: DVD
Wrestlemania 35 WWE Madman No matter how out of step I am with wrestling of a year I still look forward to Wrestlemania. As was the case, then, for the 2019 edition – Wrestlemania 35 – particularly after checking in with Elimination Chamber and Fastlane.Archive
June 27, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
WWE Fastlane 2019: DVD
Fastlane 2019 WWE Madman On the road to Wrestlemania another of the stops was Fastlane – and there was obvious business to do here, break up the Miz and Shane so they could fight at the big show, get Becky Lynch back into the title-run, develop story lines…Archive
June 25, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Matangi / Maya / M.I.A: DVD
Matangi / Maya / M.I.A Director: Steve Loveridge Madman The Amy Winehouse documentary was devastating – of course. But what was amazing about it – as is the case with documentary subjects that came of age across the last two decades – was the gathered footage. Home videos, goof-offs, early social media…Archive
December 5, 2018 by Simon Sweetman