Matt Brown

Jan 9, 2025 | totalapexentertainment.com | Matt Brown |Ashley Yin |David Gilbert

The 82nd Golden Globe Awards premiered on January 5, and the air was alive with excitement. Dazzling celebrities, memorable movies, and touching songs became winners, acquiring glittering trophies. One of the more prominent victors of the event was the film Emilia Perez. The widely popular flick earned four Golden Globes along with a dozen nominations. It was a shocking accomplishment you’d have to have seen to believe.

Jul 22, 2024 | screenanarchy.com | Matt Brown

Crushing almost sixty years of twentieth-century turmoil into less run time than the equally decade-skippy first season of HBO's House of the Dragon, Chen Kaige's Farewell My Concubine joins the Criterion Collection this week in a new 4K transfer. The film was the first Chinese feature to win the Palme D'Or at Cannes, but was later banned, then censored, then banned again in its home country.

Jun 17, 2024 | screenanarchy.com | Matt Brown

Sometimes I like to remind folks that before The Matrix was released in the spring of 1999, the bets were against it. Keanu Reeves had done five years of post-Speed action clunkers (and genuinely confusing dramatic turns); Johnny Mnemonic -- whose cyberpunk sheen seemed to be The Matrix's closest antecedent -- had been a notorious misfire; and all eyes were on Episode I: The Phantom Menace for science fiction spectacle that year anyway.

May 30, 2024 | screenanarchy.com | Matt Brown

One of the great, tragic flaws of the human race is locked up in our inability to think beyond our familiar scale of time; like the slow blades that slip the shields in Dune, gradual problems -- even if ultimately fatal -- are difficult for us to reckon with for their seeming lack of immediate urgency. Now, staged against geologic time, even the timescales of the climate catastrophe are negligibly short.

May 27, 2024 | screenanarchy.com | Matt Brown

It is a matter of historical irony that the quintessential film about looking would go unseen for so many years; from (as the legend has it) about a week after its release in U.K. cinemas in 1960, Michael Powell's Peeping Tom would be all but disappeared from polite society 'til nearly the end of the century. Of course, people did see it and did respond to it, and so Peeping Tom's legend became one of a buried masterwork, ripe for rediscovery.