Caroline Madden
School
Shenandoah Conservatory, Savannah College Of Art And Design
Expertise
Horror, Coming-of-Age Movies, 1970s And 1980s American Cinema
- In 2017, Caroline was selected for the Critics Academy by Film at Lincoln Center and the New York Film Festival.
- Caroline is the author of "Springsteen as Soundtrack: The Sound of the Boss in Film and Television" and "Virginity on Screen: The First Time in American Teen Films."
- She is the recipient of the Outstanding Achievement Award and Most Outstanding Thesis of the Year Award from SCAD.
Experience
Caroline has been writing about film since serving as the entertainment editor of her college newspaper. She has experience as the editor-in-chief of Video Librarian and the managing editor of BOSS: The Biannual-Online Journal of Springsteen Studies. Caroline has written for several outlets, including Reverse Shot, IndieWire, Little White Lies, RogerEbert.com, and more. One of her favorite topics to write about is movie soundtracks. Other experience includes writing Blu-ray/DVD catalog descriptions for Kino Lorber, selling tickets at Film at Lincoln Center, and making programs at the Museum of the Moving Image.
Education
After studying theatre at Shenandoah Conservatory, Caroline attended Savannah College of Art and Design, where she earned an M.A. in cinema studies.
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Stories By Caroline Madden
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'The scene shows the constant competition between these guys — how they compete on every level.'
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It's like looking into a twisted, blood-soaked mirror.
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Being the lead in a beloved movie doesn't make you the popular kid at school.
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How can you trust the guy who played Pennywise the dancing clown?
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The role was transformative for the iconic actor.
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The Trees shone on Valinor, and Valinor gave back their light in a thousand scintillations of splintered colours.
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Controversial in its day, the infamous horror movie plays very differently in 2022.
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The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers is very different from the previous installment, which felt much more like an innocent adventure.
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HBO did not anticipate that viewers would be so invested in such a complicated and vicious protagonist.
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A quaint small-town setting and the return of Kelly Bishop weren't enough to propel Bunheads to the same heights as Gilmore Girls.
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The original version of Misery's most famous scene almost kneecapped the movie's production.
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Ewan McGregor appeared in both Moulin Rouge! and Star Wars: Attack of the Clones, but even he couldn't prevent what happened.
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David Chase admitted in Vanity Fair's oral history of the series that terminating actors was always difficult for him, but he tried to handle it delicately.
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Actors' initial impressions of the series were out of tune with its subject matter.
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Adolescence sucks in Mary Harron's subversive lesbian vampire movie The Moth Diaries.
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Peter Jackson drew on the unique style he developed while making crafty indie features on a shoestring budget.
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Norton is known for being heavily involved in the creative process of films he stars in, and this was no exception.
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Director J.A. Bayona clearly loves the horror genre, and many classic monster movies inspired the look of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom.
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Betty Brant was not originally the role Banks was after.
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The Baby-Sitters Club was a rare gem of genuinely heartfelt TV aimed at preteen girls, but was canceled after just two seasons.
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Hanks found Forrest's voice and he ran with it.
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A star-crossed couple they were not.
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Silence served the documentary-style story instead.
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With Eastwood, you only get one shot.
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Hughes wrote arguably one of the movie's most memorable scenes specifically to entice Dooley to be in the film.
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Matthew Weiner's iconic series Mad Men was one of the great drama series of the prestige TV age; we rank the top 20 episodes of the show.