Matt Glasby

Glasgow

Chief Sub-Editor at Grand Designs Magazine

Writer (Total Film, Radio Times) and author (The Book of Horror, Britpop Cinema). Repped by Sara Langham at David Higham Associates. https://t.co/volfkGwD1w

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Articles

How to… make a twist movie

1 week ago | flicks.com.au | Matt Glasby |Travis Johnson |Steve Newall |Clarisse Loughrey

Matt Glasby’s monthly column How to… turns a sly, critical eye on how the movie world really works. This month: How to… make a twist movie. There’s a contradiction at the heart of most movie-viewing. On one hand, films offer us an escape from the crushing predictability of life. On the other, most mainstream efforts are so formulaic you could feed them to a baby.
The Philippou bros, M3gan and new Final Destination bring scares back into cinemas

1 week ago | flicks.com.au | DAVID BROWN |Matt Glasby |Rory Doherty |Eliza Janssen

Horror fans get your watchlists ready as Matt Glasby – author of The Book of Horror: The Anatomy of Fear in Film, available here – takes a look at what horror to watch (and what to watch out for) in May and June. Clown in a Cornfield Coming to Cinemas - 8 May Based on the Bram Stoker Award-winning 2020 novel by Adam Cesare, directed by Eli Craig of the excellent Tucker & Dale vs.
Why Denzel Washington vs Gene Hackman thriller Crimson Tide remains relevant 30 years on

1 week ago | scmp.com | Matt Glasby

This is the latest instalment in our From the Vault feature series, in which we reflect on culturally significant movies celebrating notable anniversaries. Thirty years after its release in May 1995, Tony Scott’s submarine thriller feels terrifyingly timely. The film that saw one of the last great roles for Gene Hackman, who died in February, posits a world on the verge of World War III because of a conflict in Eastern Europe.
Bad Genius turns high school exams into a high-stakes heist

2 weeks ago | flicks.com.au | Eliza Janssen |Luke Buckmaster |Liam Maguren |Matt Glasby

Applying heist movie conventions to a story about cheating on exams, Bad Genius is a wild ride that left Luke Buckmaster gasping for breath. When was the last time you saw a pulse-pounding production about cheating on high school exams? J.C. Lee’s devilishly sharp and exhilarating Bad Genius is a great example of applying a particular suite of conventions, in this instance the heist thriller format, to an unexpected space.
The maddeningly vague satire of Mickey 17

2 weeks ago | flicks.com.au | Eliza Janssen |Luke Buckmaster |Liam Maguren |Matt Glasby

Bong Joon-ho’s follow-up to Parasite is an unwieldly beast of a movie, starring Robert Pattinson as a “bio-clone” who’s regularly brought back from the dead. Is it a satire? An allegory? Luke Buckmaster digs in. Beware any critic who declares that Mickey 17 is good satire, without explaining what it’s satirising. Either the critic or the satire isn’t very good…possibly both.
The Smiling Satanists and Other Polite Villains

2 weeks ago | flicks.com.au | Liam Maguren |Matt Glasby |Eliza Janssen

I recently got around to finally watching Jaques Tourneur 1957 semi-classic Night of The Demon aka Curse of the Demon. I’d been meaning to see it ever since Sam Raimi’s Drag Me To Hell rocked my world in 2009, but it was kinda hard to track down. Many reviews for Drag Me To Hell cited the influence of Night of the Demon – the nature of the curse is very similar in both films, specifically in regards to the possession of a certain material item determining who the demon will take.
EGOT Viola Davis plays a butt-kicking POTUS in bonkers action romp G20

2 weeks ago | flicks.com.au | Daniel Rutledge |Travis Johnson |Liam Maguren |Matt Glasby

A judo expert President wastes a veritable smorgasbord of international goons in new action pic G20 – streaming on Prime Video. Enjoying the heck out of seeing Davis’ POTUS going up against a Kiwi-played baddie called Rutledge? Flicks’ own Daniel Rutledge. American movies have given us plenty of American presidents kicking arse. “Get off my plane,” Harrison Ford grumbles in Air Force One before killing a terrorist played by Gary Oldman with his bare hands, after taking a few others out with an MP5.
Yellowjackets keeps getting more and more twisted in season three

2 weeks ago | flicks.com.au | Liam Maguren |Matt Glasby |Eliza Janssen

Continuing to up the ante, we welcome the return of Yellowjackets. Dominic Corry previews the new season of the hit US series. After upping the crazy ante at the end of season two, Yellowjackets isn’t slowing down in season three, a more focused affair than the occasionally ponderous second season which sees the show gleefully embrace its fascinatingly dysfunctional characters.
The Philippou bros, M3gan and new Final Destination bring scares back into cinemas

2 weeks ago | flicks.co.nz | Matt Glasby

Horror fans get your watchlists ready as Matt Glasby – author of The Book of Horror: The Anatomy of Fear in Film, available here – takes a look at what horror to watch (and what to watch out for) in May and June. Clown in a Cornfield Coming to Cinemas - 8 May Based on the Bram Stoker Award-winning 2020 novel by Adam Cesare, directed by Eli Craig of the excellent Tucker & Dale vs.
The bloody twists and fluidity of Ryan Coogler’s genre mash Sinners

2 weeks ago | flicks.com.au | Matt Glasby |Rory Doherty |Eliza Janssen |Samuel Scott

Evidently one Michael B. Jordan wasn’t enough for director Ryan Coogler in Sinners – he plays identical twins in this new horror set in the 1930s. It’s a setting that injects new blood into the perilous proceedings, reports David Michael Brown. Set against a hotbed of racism scorched by the Mississippi Delta sun, Ryan Coogler’s high-concept horror fusion Sinners is an audacious, ultra-violent, foot-tapping, high-kicking historical horror with two teeth in its neck and a twist in its tail.