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

The many faces of Nicolas Cage - surfers, cops, killers and more

1 week ago | flicks.co.uk | Luke Buckmaster |Daniel Rutledge |Dominic Corry |Matt Glasby

Nothing stays the same in the zeitgeist: change, as they say, is the only constant. Unless we’re talking about Nicolas Cage going crazy, which never drops out of fashion—an extraordinary human spectacle, as enduring as the pyramids. On this front, The Surfer more than delivers the goods, starring old mate Nic as a well-off businessman engaged in all-out war with a gang of violent hoodlums in Luna Bay, a fictitious Australian coastal town.
30 years ago, Predator: Killer of Killers might’ve been a killer Predator movie

2 weeks ago | flicks.co.uk | Daniel Rutledge |Dominic Corry |Matt Glasby |Clarisse Loughrey

| Dir: Dan Trachtenberg I’d love to jump in a time machine and fly this movie back to the ‘90s. It’s hard to describe just how much of a beloved cult hit it would have been back in the DVD or VHS eras, not just because of the dream concept, but because it’s so slickly executed. A gloriously violent cartoon, this is not really a Predator sequel, reboot or remake, but rather a hyper-stylised ‘what if?’ spin-off. What if a Predator dropped into Viking-era Scandinavia? What about feudal Japan?
Different sides of Hong Kong shown in Tran Anh Hung’s critical flop I Come with the Rain

2 weeks ago | msn.com | Matt Glasby
Different sides of Hong Kong shown in Tran Anh Hung’s critical flop I Come with the Rain

2 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 an outsider’s perspective can tell you more about a place than you might expect. This is especially true for Hong Kong – a city of endless comings and goings – and the filmmakers who chose it as a location.
Surfers and sharks: A unique Aussie masculinity lurks under the surface

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

Australian cinema has long benefitted from how Aussie ideas of masculinity contrast with the archetypes put forward by the American cinematic tradition. At a glance, speaking superficially and generally, Australian males could be ideally characterised as toughened frontiersman, and not a million miles away from the defining masculine American cinematic archetype: the cowboy.
Twin Peaks predicted the spectacular collapse of America’s myths about itself

2 weeks ago | flicks.co.uk | Clarisse Loughrey |Matt Glasby |Steve Newall |Luke Buckmaster

| 8 episodes Everyone talks about the one-of-a-kindness of Twin Peaks. Oft imitated, never replicated. Mother to all of television’s prestige dramas, each of them craning their necks up, trying to taste some of that same greatness. And many have, to some degree. But not in the same way. And not, I’d argue, with the same intensity of feeling.
How 1980’s The Empire Strikes Back set Star Wars on the way to becoming phenom it is today

4 weeks 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

1 month 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

1 month 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

1 month 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.