Film & TV Archives - Page 5 of 10

Unboxing The Studio Ghibli Kiki’s Delivery Service Madman 25th Anniversary Boxed Set

December 29, 2014

It's hard to believe Kiki's Delivery Service is 25 years old. It won the Animage Anime Grand Prix in 1989, the year it was released, but didn't garner the attention of a worldwide audience for another 9 years, ... Read More...

One Does Not Simply Walk Into Erebor – A Hobbit Trilogy Watching Guide

C S Hughes

December 27, 2014

Film & TV

There have been complaints from some quarters of the Internet about The Hobbit Trilogy, and especially the final magnificent instalment, The Battle Of The Five Armies. It's too long, the Internet has said, also... Read More...

Unboxing The Studio Ghibli Howl’s Moving Castle Madman 10th Anniversary Box Set

C S Hughes

December 24, 2014

Film & TV

Howl's Moving Castle tells the story of Sophie, a young hatmaker suddenly swept up into a mysterious and dangerous adventure. Sophie is a responsible, sensible young woman. Perhaps too sensible. She encounters ... Read More...

Unboxing The Studio Ghibli The Wind Rises Madman Limited Edition Box Set

C S Hughes

December 20, 2014

Film & TV

The Wind Rises is the soaring story of a young man's dream of flight, an epic historical drama that retells the life of Jiro Horikoshi, a brilliant aeronautical engineer in the golden age of flight, a pioneer i... Read More...

Mad Max: Fury Road Tormentor Trailer

C S Hughes

December 13, 2014

Film & TV

I think Max has graduated from Mad to fully Insane. Found it necessary to change the term 'teaser trailer' to 'tormentor trailer'. Nothing more needs to be said. Watch the clip, it goes ballistic. https://ww... Read More...

For The 50th Anniversary Thunderbirds Are Go! In 2015

C S Hughes

December 13, 2014

Film & TV

The Thunderbirds have been exploding onto our Saturday morning cartoon screens for almost 50 years. While The Wacky Races have stalled, The Bananna Splits have left the building, The Funky Phantom has lost his ... Read More...

Moon Crystal Power! Madman Presents…Sailor Moon!

C S Hughes

November 28, 2014

Film & TV

Madman, local experts in all things anime, have secured the rights in Australia and New Zealand to the classic, iconic anime series Sailor Moon. The story of a seemingly ordinary, somewhat goofy and underach... Read More...

David Yates to Direct Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

Olga Hughes

October 18, 2014

Film & TV, Harry Potter

J.K. Rowling has announced on her Facebook page that the Harry Potter spin-off Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them will be directed by the marvellous David Yates, who directed the last four films in the se... Read More...

The Hunger Games and Game of Thrones: The Secret Ingredient of Two Bestsellers

Jamie Adair

October 13, 2014

Books, Film & TV, Game of Thrones

Although The Hunger Games and Game of Thrones are both runaway bestsellers, in some ways, they couldn't be more different. Game of Thrones is a historical high fantasy epic and The Hunger Games is a dystopian Y... Read More...

It’s Happening Again – David Lynch’s Twin Peaks to Return in 2016

C S Hughes

October 8, 2014

Film & TV

25years ago Twin Peaks re-invented television drama, bringing style, cool, a cinematic sensibility, adding beguilement to the mystery of murder, corruption, desire and evil in a small town in the cold, forested... Read More...

Death in the Suburbs: Gone Girl

Jamie Adair

October 6, 2014

Film & TV

When Amy Elliot Dunne (Rosamund Pike), a cool blonde preternaturally poised Manhattanite, vanishes from her Midwestern McMansion, the police – and the rapacious media – rapidly suspect her bartender husband. Am... Read More...

Studio Ghibli The Tale Of Princess Kaguya

C S Hughes

September 24, 2014

Film & TV

Studio Ghibli's The Tale Of The Princess Kaguya, directed and co-written by Isao Takahata, based on a 10th century Japanese folk tale, is a fable filled with charm, laughter, sadness and the pure, joyful, extra... Read More...

Sleepy Hollow – Was Benjamin Franklin Really A Nudist?

C S Hughes

September 23, 2014

Film & TV, History

The new season of Sleepy Hollow began in spectacular fashion, with our heroes Ichabod, Jenny and Abbie racing against time to thwart a plot by demon Moloch and his minions raising an army of lost souls in Purga... Read More...

The Tale Of Studio Ghibli A Not To Be Missed Cinematic Showcase

C S Hughes

September 6, 2014

Film & TV

For two weeks in October put away cynicism and worldly concerns and prepare for wonder, joy, guileless laughter, profound tears and perhaps a large popcorn; Madman are presenting the Tale Of Studio Ghibli Showc... Read More...

Faking Pregnant Teenage Panda Wasteland

C S Hughes

August 30, 2014

Film & TV

With their black eyes and exposed white bellies you thought they were merely cute, or at least symbolic of the aftermath of a night of excess, but with a penchant for bamboo shoots and the least likely camoufla... Read More...

Subversive Pop Movie!

C S Hughes

August 22, 2014

Film & TV

A Hard Day's Night - Head - Catch Us If You Can The formula of the pop idol movie is something we are probably most familiar with from the films of Elvis Presley or Cliff Richard. Essentially the teen idols po... Read More...

Terror In Resonance – Old School New Anime

C S Hughes

July 18, 2014

Film & TV

There seems to be an awful lot of pap in anime these days. Stories with the barest pretense of plot giving poorly drawn well endowed women in flimsy outfits even flimsier reasons to battle - mechas, aliens, tec... Read More...