Caroline Madden

New Jersey

Author of Springsteen as Soundtrack & Virginity On Screen @McFarlandCoPub | Writer @slashfilm | Managing Editor @BOSSEditors

Articles

The Handmaid's Tale Series Finale Is A Hot Mess, But Its Final Message Is Worth It

1 week ago | slashfilm.com | Caroline Madden

The last season of "The Handmaid's Tale" had explosive deaths and a deadly wedding, but the final episode is slow and impressionistic, rather than the crescendo of a climactic plot.
Review: Cazzie David and Elisa Kalani's 'I Love You Forever'

1 week ago | vaguevisages.com | Caroline Madden

2020s Vague Visages’ I Love You Foreverreview contains minor spoilers. Cazzie David and Elisa Kalani’s 2024 movie features Ray Nicholson, Sofia Black-D’Elia and Jon Rudnitsky. Check out the VV home page for more film criticism, movie reviews and film essays. I Love You Forever nimbly moves between comedy and drama; few filmmakers are capable of pulling off such tonal shifts, let alone those making their feature debut.
Disney's Lilo & Stitch Remake Is Too Afraid Of The Original Movie's Hard-Hitting Message

1 week ago | slashfilm.com | Caroline Madden

"Lilo & Stitch" creator and co-director Chris Sanders randomly chose Hawaii for the film's setting after recently vacationing there, but it ended up being the perfect place for his story of displacement and belonging. The filmmakers behind "Lilo & Stitch" genuinely respected Hawaiian culture and cared about representing it fairly, making frequent research trips to study all aspects of Pacific Islander living.
A Legendary SoHo Diner Has Quietly Starred In Some Major Movies

1 week ago | slashfilm.com | Caroline Madden

New York is known for its famous on screen eateries like Tom's Restaurant in "Seinfeld" or Katz's Delicatessen in "When Harry Met Sally" (which appears in the scene featuring that famous punchline), but rarely has a diner appeared as frequently in film and television as the Moondance Diner.
6 Essential John Wayne Movies That Everyone Should See At Least Once

1 week ago | slashfilm.com | Caroline Madden

For better or worse, John Wayne, also known as The Duke, became a cinematic symbol of the jingoistic ideals of the American West: rugged individualism, Manifest Destiny, and hypermasculine law and order.
Joel McHale's The Bear Role, Explained

2 weeks ago | slashfilm.com | Caroline Madden

Season 3 of "The Bear" was chock-full of cameos. John Cena featured in a lame, drawn-out joke as one of the Faks who liked to "haunt" others. Josh Hartnett was on a comeback tour that year, playing Tiff's new fiancé and also starring in M. Night Shyamalan's messy thriller "Trap," and Joel McHale returned as Chef David Fields after appearing briefly in the first two seasons.
Disney's 23 Best And Most Memorable Songs Ever, Ranked

2 weeks ago | kotaku.com | Caroline Madden

Opening with a pulsing drum track, Strangers Like Me evokes the spinning wheels in Tarzan’s mind as he learns more about what lies beyond the jungle. The montage is gorgeously animated, featuring old-fashioned ink illustrations that Tarzan looks at through a magic lantern. He sees the city of London, a giant castle, the Sphinx, and even outer space for the first time. This flood of information drives the song’s urgent pace.
The Handmaid's Tale Season 6 Episode 9 Puts An Explosive End To The Love Triangle

2 weeks ago | slashfilm.com | Caroline Madden

Spoilers follow. What happens when a double agent chooses the wrong side? What if it is someone you love? These are some of the many difficult questions that "The Handmaid's Tale" final season asks. Nick's meteoric rise from a driver to a Commander himself proved handy for June's covert missions throughout the series. But as the showrunners remind us in Elle, "he must have been doing something to contribute to that ascent."AdvertisementSeason 6 has broken the trance of Nick's smoldering presence.
Review: Michael Casey and Paddy Murphy's 'Lulu and the Electric Dreamboat'

2 weeks ago | vaguevisages.com | Caroline Madden

2020s Vague Visages’ Lulu and the Electric Dreamboatreview contains minor spoilers. Michael Casey and Paddy Murphy’s 2023 movie on Amazon features Sinead Morrissey, Michael Casey and Steve J. Palmer. Check out the VV home page for more film criticism, movie reviews and film essays. Described as a “pop-punk rom-com,” Michael Casey and Paddy Murphy’s Lulu and the Electric Dreamboat is a winsome coming-of-age film with surgical wit.
Review: Ben Petrie's 'The Heirloom'

2 weeks ago | vaguevisages.com | Caroline Madden

2020s Vague Visages’ The Heirloomreview contains minor spoilers. Ben Petrie’s 2024 movie features himself, Grace Glowicki and Matt Johnson. Check out the VV home page for more film criticism, movie reviews and film essays. When the world shut down in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, cinema used our tenuous new lifestyle to create a unique subgenre of its own, inserting new themes of isolation and forced lockdowns into established genres.