Matt Adcock

United Kingdom

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Author of novel & comic COMPLETE DARKNESS - @denofgeek top book https://t.co/yHK24fYn73 1/2 of @hostsintheshell podcast. Click link below… Views personal.

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THE GiX LOGS - Observations From The Future

2 weeks ago | darkmatt.blogspot.com | Matt Adcock

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LogEntry_666: Observations on the Human Obsession with Hell

2 weeks ago | buzzsprout.com | Matt Adcock

In this transmission, GiX analyses humanity’s long-standing fascination with Hell - that charming imaginary punishment server no one can stop coding into their belief systems. From Dante’s circles to Doom and Diablo, GiX explores how poets, gamers, and meatbags alike can’t resist imagining damnation. Is it cosmic paranoia? Moral checksum failure? Or do we all sense something lurking just beyond the firewall of reality?
‎‘Humane’ review by Matt Adcock • Letterboxd

2 weeks ago | letterboxd.com | Matt Adcock |Caitlin Cronenberg

PATIENT NAME: Humane (2024)DIRECTOR: Caitlin CronenbergGENRE: Dystopian Drama / Familial HorrorDATE OF ADMISSION: April 26, 2024⸻CHIEF COMPLAINT:Acute collapse of societal ethics under eco-doom stress. Presents with symptoms of upper-class guilt, family dysfunction, and weaponized euthanasia. ⸻HISTORY OF PRESENT ILLNESS:Set in a near-future post-crisis world, the patient explores a government initiative to reduce the population.
‎‘The Ugly Stepsister’ review by Matt Adcock • Letterboxd

3 weeks ago | letterboxd.com | Matt Adcock |Emilie Blichfeldt

★★★½ Why hello… Here’s The Ugly Stepsister, where director Emilie Blichfeldt flips the Cinderella myth on its powdered wig, delivering a gorgeously grim tale of envy, identity, tapeworms and revenge. Lea Myren stuns as Elvira, the maligned stepsister reimagined not as a villain, but as a complex, wounded soul forced to play second fiddle to Thea Sofie Loch Næss’s chillingly composed Cinderella. Shot like a poisoned dream by Marcel Zyskind and scored with eerie beauty by Kaada, this Norwegian...
Dave Keech Interview Americanology and More

1 month ago | darkmatt.blogspot.com | Matt Adcock

Americanology with Dave KeechAMERICANOLOGY is a deep-groove jazz track infused with soul, featuring the powerhouse vocals of Andre Espeut and a stellar lineup of the UK’s most progressive and creative jazz musicians, including Binker Golding, Rob Luft, Nikolaj Torp Larsen, Nim Sadot, and Corrie Dick. The track blends jazz musicianship with classic soul, making it equally at home on jazz playlists and dance floors.
Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 review

1 month ago | darkmatt.blogspot.com | Matt Adcock

Kingdom Come: Deliverance II (PS5) – A Platinum Pilgrimage Through the Murderous Meadows of BohemiaBy Matt Adcock (@Cleric20) – Still trying to scrub the virtual blood off my handsYou know you’re deep into a game when the local wildlife start to fear your name. After 200+ hours lost in the mud-caked, blood-smeared wonder that is *Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2*, I emerged victorious, platinum trophy in hand, sanity… well, we don’t talk about that anymore.
‎‘Mulholland Drive’ review by Matt Adcock • Letterboxd

1 month ago | letterboxd.com | Matt Adcock |David Lynch

“Silencio…”Welcome to Mulholland Drive, the cinematic equivalent of wandering into a dream where everyone knows the script except you, and the moment you think you’ve figured it out… the film turns around, stares directly into your soul, and whispers “This is the girl.”David Lynch’s magnum opus is less a film and more a dark ritual, an intoxicating descent through the glittering gutters of Hollywood, where dreams curdle into nightmares and the line between fantasy and reality warp.
Matt finds Fréwaka (review) and best folk films

1 month ago | darkmatt.blogspot.com | Matt Adcock

Fréwaka (2024) Dir. Aislinn Clarke Reviewed by Matt (@Cleric20) AdcockStarring: Clare Monnelly, Bríd Ní NeachtainGenre: Irish-language Folk Horror "Folklore and trauma collide…” Something wicked stirs in the shadows of Ireland’s mist-shrouded folklore. Fréwaka, the bold and deeply unsettling second feature from Aislinn Clarke (The Devil’s Doorway), is an Irish-language horror that grips like a cold hand from beyond the veil.
‎‘Havoc’ review by Matt Adcock • Letterboxd

2 months ago | letterboxd.com | Matt Adcock |Gareth Evans

From The Raid director Gareth Evans comes Havoc, a brutal, chaotic juggernaut of a film that crashes through your senses like a wrecking ball. Sure, the plot is barely there to support the outrageous carnage. But oh boy, does Evans deliver on the visceral thrills. At the rotten, blood-pumping heart of Havoc is one of the most insane nightclub fights/shootouts ever committed to screen. A prolonged, jaw-dropping symphony of shattered glass, bone-crunching hits, and ballistic fury.
‎‘Sinners’ review by Matt Adcock • Letterboxd

2 months ago | letterboxd.com | Matt Adcock |Ryan Coogler

“It couldn’t be more ‘go’ time!”Seen in jaw dropping 70mm IMAX!!A righteous, action-laced, Southern Gothic banger that swings holy hell against both the undead and the living devils of systemic racism. Set in a sweltering, segregated 1930s Mississippi, Sinners follows twin Black war veterans Elijah “Smoke” and Elias “Stack” Moore (both Michael B. Jordan at his absolute peak) who just want to open a juke joint and live free.