Film Review: Miss Sloane (2016)
It’s quite difficult to offer much by way of insight into Miss Sloane without giving much of the story away. The film relies on…
John Madden
Film Review: The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2015)
A few years ago, older audiences were given a rare gift in The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. A fish-out-of-water story, set in beautiful India…
Film Review: Rocketman (2019)
In today’s culture of streaming and downloading, not having to leave your house to get new music, it’s hard to imagine someone selling more…
Film Review: Bastille Day (2016)
For this review, let’s put aside the questionable taste in releasing a film – something meant to be a piece of action popcorn entertainment…
TV Review: Game of Thrones, S2E2
Warning: Full spoilers for Game of Thrones season 2, episode 2 follow. “I could shave a spider’s arse if I wanted to.” Game of…
84th Academy Awards Predictions
At approximately 12.30am AEST tomorrow (aka Wednesday 25th Jan), the nominations for the 84th Annual Academy Awards will be announced in Los Angeles.
Show-biz Cautionary Tales
Five films. Five tales of opportunism, faded glory, delusions of grandeur, selling your wife’s womb to the devil, and punishing a child with wardrobe…
Film Review: The Tree of Life (2011)
By James Madden. Remember the days where Terrence Malick had only made three films in twenty-five years? Yeah, me too. Since The Thin Red…
Film Review: Snowtown (2011)
James Madden. There is something about being in a film screening with at least 50 people. When I was younger, I preferred it when…
Film Review: The King’s Speech (2010)
By James Madden. Viewed 01.01.11 It’s good to be a King! …or so the saying goes. But for George VI, or “Bertie” as we…