by Matt Freeman | Sep 22, 2015 | Essay, Movie Reviews, Uncategorized
Meta – (of a creative work) referring to itself or to the conventions of its genre; self-referential. A couple weeks ago, horror legend Wes Craven passed away from brain cancer at the age of 76. This news came as a shock to most people (myself included) who were...
by Matt Freeman | Sep 8, 2015 | Movie Reviews, Uncategorized
I’m about to give a positive review to one of the dumbest movies ever. So get the fuck ready folks. As a guy who’s been publicly reviewing movies for close to a year now, I’m acutely aware that your opinion of me as a critic constantly rests on the edge of a knife....
by Matt Freeman | Aug 7, 2015 | Movie Reviews, Uncategorized
If Fantastic Four is remembered for one thing, it will be that it was desperately trying to do something different. Director Josh Trank, whose previous movie Chronicle was a wonderfully refreshing take on both superheroes and found footage films, set out to make a...
by Matt Freeman | Aug 5, 2015 | Movie Reviews, Uncategorized
Ethan Hunt doesn’t die in Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation. I don’t think it’s really a spoiler to say this at this point. Ethan Hunt will never die. Even if this was the final film in the Mission Impossible franchise (it’s not), the series would most likely end with...
by Matt Freeman | Jul 31, 2015 | Movie Reviews, Uncategorized
I think I’m in love with Amy Schumer. This past couple years I’ve been happily following her meteoric rise to fame which started, at least to me, with the hilarious and incredibly insightful Comedy Central show Inside Amy Schumer. The show title is fitting because...
by Matt Freeman | Jul 29, 2015 | Essay, Movie Reviews, Uncategorized
Richard Linklater thinks Mason (Coltrane), the protagonist of Boyhood, is a normal kid. And that makes me angry. Not because he’s a middle class heterosexual white male. I trust somebody else has already written at length about how defining Mason as “normal” is...
