Marc can also be seen dishing out his quirky film reviews for Network Ten's Logie-winning morning chat show The Circle every week.
Outside of film criticism, Marc was a presenter, producer and reporter for all 3 seasons of ABC1's Hungry Beast where he investigated, satrized and explored the realms of digital media, popular culture, gaming and technology. Marc is also a regular media, tech and culture commentator for Paul Murray Live on Sky News.
Marc blogs here, tweets here, and he also fronts a new webseries about movie trailers called Coming Sooner.
In November 2011, Marc's first book imaginatively titled That Movie Book will be released by Harper Collins and ABC Books.
Marc's career began when he was one of the winners of the AFI Outstanding Young Film Critics Awards. Marc then spent 4 years as the film critic for Sydney radio station FBi 94.5. Marc was soon recruited to present DVD reviews for SBS Television's The Movie Show at the age of 19. Since then he's worked across broadcast, print and online media. Marc has been a graphic designer, web developer, magazine and newspaper writer and radio producer. Marc has interviewed countless filmmakers, actors, musicians and writers. He even performed a live comedy show at the 2009 Melbourne Comedy Festival.
Scroll to the right to watch some of Marc's broadcasting work in full.
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The Circle, Network Ten (2010-) Each Wednesday Marc drops by Network Ten's live daytime chat show The Circle to talk movies, gesticulate wildly and generally make a mess of himself. Watch latest reviews here |
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Hungry Beast, ABC TV (2009-2011) In 2009, Marc expanded from the film world to present and report on Andrew Denton's groundbreaking comedy/ journalism hybrid Hungry Beast. Watch. |
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triple j tv, ABC TV (2008-2009) What's the history behind shakey camerawork? Does Walt Disney hate black people? And Is 'Marc Fennell's Flicked on triple j tv' the only tv segment to answer these questions? The answers are 'Strange', 'Maybe' and 'Hell Yeah' Watch. |
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Batmanthology, Movie Extra (2007) Marc presented the digital multi-channel event 'Batmanthology' for Movie Networks Australia. He hosted the screenings of each Batman film and fronted 6 documentary specials that went behind the cowl of the Dark Knight. Watch |
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The Movie Show, SBS (2004-2006) For two years Marc wrote and presented cult DVD segments on The Movie Show. With his giant curly hair he attacked everything from Japanese Horror, to Alien Invasions to Serial Killer Mums. Watch |
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triple j, ABC Radio (2006-) As the film critic for Australia's national youth radio network Marc has built up a loyal following with his his quirky reviews and Film Ed 101 segment which delved into the strange world of movie culture and history. Listen to Film Ed 101's here. Follow Marc's lastest reviews here |
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ABC Local Radio (2004-) For 7 years Marc has been contributing film commentary and reviews to ABC local radio right around the nation. More |
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FBi Radio (2003-2006) As the in-house film critic and reporter for Sydney's youth station FBi Marc presented and produced over 200 film reviews and interviewed pop-culture icons like Kevin Smith, Richard Linklater, Malcom McLaren, JJ Abrams and Joss Whedon. Listen |
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Massage My Medium Melbourne Comedy Festival (2009) At the 2009 MICF, Marc and Comedian Dan Ilic co-wrote and presented this live comedy stage show all about the death of television networks. Watch it here. |
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Bigpond Movies (2007) Marc researched, wrote and presented 8 episodes of an online film series 'Bigpond Movies Present...' for Telstra's BigPond TV. Watch. |
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Culture Pop (2006) Marc produced, directed and edited this short documentary series exploring different underground & youth cultures. Watch. |
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Australian Film Institute Outstanding Young Film Critic (2002) Congrats for scrolling all the way to the end. Muchly appreciated. |
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