Maddie’s Secret Is That It’s a Horror Movie

Maddie’s Secret Is That It’s a Horror Movie

John Early made a horror movie where the villain is food. The comedian’s directorial debut, ‘Maddie’s Secret,’ just premiered at TIFF. It mines melodrama for laughs but pushes it so far, it swings back around to being emotionally affecting again.

The Most Interesting Thing About John Early’s Directorial Debut Is Not That He’s Playing a Woman

Opening night at the Toronto International Film Festival is always a scene, but the particulars of your scene? It’s a matter of which big world premiere you’re hitting up first. While the festival’s official opening night gala was Colin Hanks’ loving and insightful documentary “John Candy: I Like Me,” the festival’s many sections have their own openers, like the forward-thinking Discovery section. This year, opening night for the Disco crowd was…

AwardsWatch - ‘Maddie’s Secret’ Review: John Early’s Directorial Debut Isn’t Quite the Gag-Worthy Parody It Should Be [C+] TIFF

Once upon the 1980s there was a little NBCmovie about Kate, a seemingly perfect, beautiful housewife who harbored a dark and disturbing secret—she furtively ate to excess until she made herself vomit in the kitchen bathroom or a back alley. That movie, naturally entitled Kate’s Secret and starring 80s TV queen Meredith Baxter Birney, has…