Matt

Matt

Favorite films

  • Pulp Fiction
  • Hard Truths
  • Memento
  • The Shining

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  • Marching Powder

    ★★★

  • Hard Truths

    ★★★★★

  • The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

    ★★★½

  • City of God

    ★★★★★

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  • Marching Powder

    Marching Powder

    ★★★

    This is a very entertaining watch. I didn’t go five minutes without laughing. 

    However it literally doesn’t go anywhere. It ends and starts with Danny Dyer stomping into a scrap. 

    Very very funny though.

  • Hard Truths

    Hard Truths

    ★★★★★

    I remember in 2019 when I first set my eyes on British social realist director Ken Loach’s brilliant ‘I, Daniel Blake’. I was taken aback. How Loach managed to evoke so much human emotion, most notably empathy and frustration was beyond me. 

    Now, in 2025 I’ve watched my first Mike Leigh film, Hard Truths. Leigh is also known for his contribution to British social realism, and now I can finally see why. He takes every actor and utilises them to their uttermost…

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  • City of God

    City of God

    ★★★★★

    It took me a day to get over how stunning Fernando Meirelles City of God is. There’s a lot to process.

    Never before has a film gone quicker. Action packed sequences, intensity and crime with no limits accelerates the film from the first scene, and there’s no time to stop.

    Rocket and Lil Dice’s paths are both fantastic narratives, centred around the main character, the City of God. Rio de Janeiro is the one constant in every life, and the…

  • La Haine

    La Haine

    ★★★★½

    Definition of pure cult. 

    Vinz, Sayid and Hubert are electric. Every scene has so much intensity, passion and tension. Feels like someone’s going to be shot any second. 

    Cinematography is beautiful. The dolly shot midway through the film with Paris in the background is divine.

    Absolutely loved the ending, felt so right. Vinz was a bit too cocky. 

    Mathieu Kassovitz is a genius. 

    The world is ours.”

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