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 1980’s The Empire Strikes Back set Star Wars on the way to becoming phenom it is today

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. It is hard to imagine a world in which Star Wars is not the galaxy-conquering behemoth we know today. As of 2025, George Lucas’s sci-fi franchise includes nine films and three movie spin-offs, with more streaming and animated series being added all the time.
Heads up: The Final Destination series’ best skull-smashing carnage

2 weeks ago | flicks.com.au | Matt Glasby |DAVID BROWN |Rory Doherty |Eliza Janssen

A beloved horror franchise returns after more than a decade with Final Destination: Bloodlines. Daniel Rutledge revisits the series and the most disgustingly literal ways it messes with heads onscreen. Spoiler alert: This piece includes two scenes from the newest film. If you don’t want to know what happens, turn back here. It’s been 14 long years since we last had a Final Destination movie and damn it’s good to have Death back.
How disaster struck for Air Strike, a Chinese movie starring Bruce Willis and Adrien Brody

3 weeks ago | scmp.com | Matt Glasby

This is the latest instalment in a feature series reflecting on instances of East meets West in world cinema, including China-US co-productions. Sometimes troubled productions can create powerful cinema. Other times they create disasters like Xiao Feng’s 2018 film Air Strike.
At 65, Bryan Adams is a master of crowd pleasers

3 weeks ago | discover.ticketmaster.co.uk | Matt Glasby

Review / 15 May 2025 Backed by a three-piece band and an army of hits, at his Glasgow OVO show, the Canadian rocker makes sure everyone leaves happy It’s not a question most of us have ever considered, but is Bryan Adams underrated? True, you could hardly cast him as an outsider artist struggling to make his voice heard. Nor, with an estimated 75-100 million records sold, could you exactly call him an underdog.
How to… make a twist movie

1 month 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 month 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 month 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

1 month 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

1 month 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

1 month 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.