Rodney is Movie Smackdown‘s Man Down Under. He’s a proud Aussie who, unlike that other famous Aussie film guy named after a reptile, does not wear a leather hat, carry a big knife or wander about in the Outback.
He lives in Adelaide, South Australia and, with all the time he saves by not wandering in the Outback, he watches movie after movie. Then he writes about them because telling everyone individually what his opinions are would be too time consuming. Rodney spends a great deal of his time justifying why he enjoys Michael Bay movies.
The Smackdown Life (or our perception of it) changed ten years ago with the release of The Matrix. Its game-changing depiction of apocalyptic conflagration drew people to the cinema to witness one of the medium’s most […]
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The Smackdown Australia is a continent, my country, a state of mind and now, finally, a movie. To get the silver-screen version made, they gave one of the most visually stylish directors working today more […]
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EDITOR’S NOTE, ELECTION DAY-AFTER 2008. It feels like a movie, this rise of Barack Obama. And he did have to win a couple of tough Smackdowns to get here. Besides its compelling lead actor, this […]