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Marc Fennell

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Biography:

Marc Fennell is a film critic, technology journalist, tv presenter, radio host, author and all-round media mischief maker. He is best known around Australia for being 'That Movie Guy' on triple j, ABC Radio and on various Network Ten programmes including The Circle, Ten News and The Project. His unique review segments on triple j (radio and tv) have racked up hundreds of thousands of downloads. Marc has also appeared on multiple Foxtel programmes including Showtime's The Movie Club and the Foxtel Movie Show. Marc co-produces a digital series about the art of movie trailers called Coming Sooner. He also produced & presented the 2012 series Bollywood For Beginners for SBS. Marc's imaginatively titled first book That Movie Book is on shelves through Harper Collins and ABC Books.

Marc's career began when he won an AFI Outstanding Young Film Critics Award. After 4 years as the film critic for Sydney radio station FBi 94.5 Marc was soon recruited to present DVD reviews for The Movie Show at the age of 19. Since then he's worked across broadcast, print and online media.

Location:

Sydney, Australia

Reviews

Movies TV Shows
Star Trek (2009) 94% 4/5 EDIT “I think JJ Abrams and his movie 'gets' what Trek is supposed to be about.” – Triple J Mar 17, 2015 Full Review Iron Man 3 (2013) 79% 4/5 EDIT “Watching Robert Downey Jr play a charismatic swaggering d*ck is entertaining. Watching him play an emotionally damaged swaggering d*ck is compelling. With huge laughs and hugely entertaining twists Iron Man 3 is easily on of the best Marvel movies” – Triple J Apr 29, 2013 Full Review Olympus Has Fallen (2013) 49% .5/5 EDIT “t's a terrible action film but a brilliant piece of North Korean propaganda. The American characters act so stupidly that you're pretty much rooting for Kim Jong-un. THAT'S HOW BAD IT IS.” – Triple J Apr 22, 2013 Full Review Warm Bodies (2013) 81% 3.5/5 EDIT “Sometimes feels like the script doesn't quite know where it's going but has plenty of fun getting there.” – Triple J Apr 11, 2013 Full Review Oblivion (2013) 53% 3/5 EDIT “Stunning design, clever twists and turns, strong performances and one of the best soundtracks in recent memory marred by one of the most patronising unnecessary voice-over narrations of all time.” – Triple J Apr 9, 2013 Full Review Django Unchained (2012) 87% 4/5 EDIT “A bloody masterpiece. Funny, Thrilling, cleverly structured.” – Triple J Apr 8, 2013 Full Review Zero Dark Thirty (2012) 91% 4/5 EDIT “A film of infectious urgency, questionable accuracy, murky morality and undeniable emotional and intellectual power” – Triple J Apr 8, 2013 Full Review Lincoln (2012) 89% 3/5 EDIT “A bit like watching the West Wing played by Amish People. Desperately needed 40 minutes cut out of what is essentially quite a beautifully made movie.” – Triple J Apr 8, 2013 Full Review Movie 43 (2013) 5% .5/5 EDIT “Being punched in the face was easier that watching this movie.” – Triple J Apr 8, 2013 Full Review Beautiful Creatures (2013) 47% 4/5 EDIT “Who would've thought that Emo Witches and Satanic Southern MILFS could end up being so entertaining?” – Triple J Apr 8, 2013 Full Review Cloud Atlas (2012) 66% 4/5 EDIT “Despite the fact that ot sometimes looks like $102 million celebrity dress up party where Tom Hanks got a really good bulk deal on latex noses Cloud Atlas sometimes strikes moments of sheer beauty.” – Triple J Apr 8, 2013 Full Review Oz the Great and Powerful (2013) 56% 2.5/5 EDIT “Stunning visuals, some suprising plot twists, dreadfully mediocre dialogue delivered by a woefully miscast James Franco.” – Triple J Apr 8, 2013 Full Review The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (2013) 37% 2/5 EDIT “4 good jokes do not a good comedy feature film make.” – Triple J Apr 8, 2013 Full Review A Good Day to Die Hard (2013) 15% 2/5 EDIT “A perfectly fine collection of ridiculous stunts and gratuitous explosions ruined by the addition of nonsensical plot and acting that appears to be submerged beneath weapons-grade painkillers.” – Triple J Apr 8, 2013 Full Review The Host (2013) 10% 1/5 EDIT “So badly scripted, performed and directed that it literally destroyed my faith in humanity.” – Triple J Apr 8, 2013 Full Review Trance (2013) 68% 4/5 EDIT “Stretches plausibility but enormously engaging with with rhythmic visuals, killer soundtrack and ballsy cast.” – Triple J Apr 8, 2013 Full Review The Rite (2011) 22% 2.5/5 EDIT “Anthony Hopkins playing someone evil? SHOCKING. He is rather good at this schtick, but the script is flabby and cliche ridden. The young lead looks distractingly like an emo Ken doll too.” – Triple J Mar 14, 2011 Full Review The Company Men (2010) 67% 3.5/5 EDIT “Unemployment is not a naturally cinematic thing. A far-too-neat conclusion notwithstanding, This is a decent exploration of the psychology of what happens when you loose your job.” – Triple J Mar 14, 2011 Full Review The Way Back (2010) 73% 3/5 EDIT “There is a limit to how many times one human can watch toothless, malnourished men stumble around the desert bitching about communism and a lack of borscht.” – Triple J Mar 7, 2011 Full Review The Adjustment Bureau (2011) 71% 4/5 EDIT “Far too neat and schmaltzy but otherwise a surprisingly witty film from the Dark City/Inception mould.” – Triple J Mar 7, 2011 Full Review Wasted on the Young (2010) 65% 2/5 EDIT “Visually impressive, but the script needed a big angry red pen taken to it. Oh, and does every character need to shuffle around like they're in a My Chemical Romance video clip?” – Triple J Mar 7, 2011 Full Review Tron: Legacy (2010) 51% 3.5/5 EDIT “A fantastic big screen sensory experience that unfortunately has a plot built entirely from nonsensical technophilosphy wank” – Triple J Mar 1, 2011 Full Review Somewhere (2010) 71% 2/5 EDIT “A superficial movie about beautiful people, when it needed to be a beautiful film about superficial people. Lacks the magic of Coppola's best movies.” – Triple J Mar 1, 2011 Full Review The King's Speech (2010) 94% 4.5/5 EDIT “Witty script, quirky performances, flawless casting and wonderfully inventive cinematography. Golf claps all round.” – Triple J Mar 1, 2011 Full Review The Dilemma (2011) 24% 2/5 EDIT “Some great chemistry between the central duo is undone by a plot that is so frustrating you will want to chew off your arm. It's so frustrating that the ending is a palpable relief.” – Triple J Mar 1, 2011 Full Review
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