About: Matt Hendricks
Matt Hendricks is an independent filmmaker and wannabe writer/screenwriter who likes writing about "other people's movies". Read about Matt's top ten favorites.
Website: http://matthendricks.org/
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Posted on: 08 Aug 2018
The secret to enjoying a movie like Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom is to have no expectations of it. Considering it’s the sequel to a reboot/continuation of a trilogy that started in the nineties, that’s not too hard of a task. What should be worn out and dull by now is surprisingly engaging, however. Fallen Kingdom […]
Posted on: 02 Aug 2018
In spite of all the films released in 2017, the year will most likely go down in movie history as the year of Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Not that there weren’t plenty of great movies being made (there were actually quite a few of them), it’s just that nobody seemed talk about them quite […]
Posted on: 02 Aug 2018
2013 brought on an endless supply of great movies from (then-) emerging or already-established filmmaking giants. It is the most recent year for American movies that brings about the most hope for their future. This is both encouraging and mildly disheartening, considering that the years since have only contained a few sporadic masterworks each, and […]
Posted on: 31 Jul 2018
When Tony Scott prematurely passed away at the age of 68 on August 19, 2012, the hole left in his fans’ and collaborators’ hearts was best expressed by a tweet Ron Howard posted on the same day: “No more Tony Scott movies. Tragic day.” Many other filmmakers and actors who had worked with or been […]
Posted on: 31 Jul 2018
LaserDiscs. What are they? Where did they come from? Why did they ever exist in the first place? You’re probably asking yourself these questions right now… Actually, you’re probably not. You’re probably not thinking anything about LaserDiscs at all. In fact, you probably aren’t even reading this because the word “LaserDisc” is in the title. […]
Posted on: 29 Jul 2018
Terry Gilliam’s The Zero Theorem is, essentially, a “best of” compilation of his entire career. The 2014 film is yet another Gilliam ode to escaping the hell of reality through self-induced insanity, another piece of the mad, hallucinatory world he’s developed through films such as Brazil, 12 Monkeys, and Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas. […]
Posted on: 29 Jul 2018
If Russ Meyer and Quentin Tarantino collaborated on a screenplay for Terrence Malick to direct, the resulting film would resemble something like 2013’s Spring Breakers. Believe it or not, that’s an over-simplification for one of the most challenging and daring films to be released in mainstream theatres since Oliver Stone’s 1994 media trash masterpiece, Natural […]
