Matthew

Matthew Pro

Favorite films

  • Memories of Murder
  • LA 92
  • All Is Lost
  • Chernobyl

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  • The Substance

    ½

  • The Apprentice

    ★★★★½

  • Court of Gold

    ★★★½

  • September 5

    ★★★½

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  • The Substance

    The Substance

    ½

    If I had not seen "Trap" within the last year, this would definitely be the worst movie I'd seen in a year. Maybe it still is.

    30 minutes too long. Bouncing between softcore pornography and gore-porn. Interesting premise that doesn't sustain the full viewing time. The ending is so stupid and unbelievable it actually blows my mind. Just awful.

  • The Apprentice

    The Apprentice

    ★★★★½

    And so it was, the miraculous conception of a dickhead

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  • Court of Gold

    Court of Gold

    ★★★½

    2024 Summer Olympics was probably the best international basketball tournament in history, and the US's iconic trio of LeBron James, Kevin Durant and Steph Curry capped the tournament with multiple historic moments and performances.

    This documentary miniseries primarily follows four teams from the tournament: the US, Canada, France and Serbia as they each looked to claim the Gold medal at the Paris games. They also briefly take a look in at Germany, who as the defending FIBA champs were another…

  • Rear Window

    Rear Window

    ★★★★

    "What does a fish know about the water in which it swims all its life?"

    This quote, from Einstein's essay-collection-turned-memoir, "Out of My Later Years", was published in 1950. Just a few short years later, the Alfred Hitchcock slow-burn psychological mystery, "Rear Window" followed suit, and hits many of the same notes.

    While Einstein's quote and Hitchcock's Rear Window definitely had a definitive meaning in their own time, it's amazing to me how much of that sentiment carries over into…