Matt Goldberg

Atlanta

Content Manager, Editor, and Writer at Freelance

Articles

Waxing Poetic: Jaume Collet-Serra and Stephen F. Windon on twenty years of House of Wax • Journal • A Letterboxd Magazine

1 week ago | letterboxd.com | Mitchell Beaupre |Matt Goldberg

So goes the iconic tagline for 2005’s equally iconic House of Wax, a watershed moment in the grunge horror era of early 21st century Hollywood cinema. While other films of this wave have seen their stocks falter as they age, Jaume Collet-Serra’s loose remake of André de Toth’s 1953 Vincent Price-starring chiller about a murderer who encases his victims in wax sculptures has only grown in stature.
‘Havoc’ Review: Standard Crime-Actioner Gets an Adrenaline Boost Thanks to Gareth Evans’ Exhilarating Direction

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Matt Goldberg

Even before the “John Wick” movies stepped up to revitalize a flagging action genre that was increasingly inundated with CGI set pieces, director Gareth Evans was over in Indonesia crafting some of the craziest action scenes audiences had ever seen with “The Raid.” While the director has spent most of the 2020s on his TV series “Gangs of London,” he has thankfully returned to the action film genre with “Havoc,” a film that on paper resembles plenty of other crime thrillers but carries the...
6 Actors Who’ve Played Spider-Man + How They Made Their Web-Slinger Unique

1 month ago | backstage.com | Matt Goldberg

Although comic book films existed prior to the release of Sam Raimi’s “Spider-Man” in 2002, the superhero boom as we know it began when that movie became the first ever to gross over $100 million in a single weekend. The titular webhead, despite never making it to the big screen before, was already so beloved that audiences couldn’t wait to get a look at his first feature adventure. Across live-action, animation, and video games, countless actors have since taken on the part.
Star of the Month: Red Skelton

1 month ago | tcm.com | Matt Goldberg

Mondays in April at 8pm | 29 MoviesIt is the rare TCM Star of the Month whose filmography only represents a sliver of their industrious career. But for Red Skelton, movies were only one aspect of a prodigious and prolific life in entertainment and the arts. Born Richard Skelton in Vincennes, Indiana on July 18, 1913, Skelton would bring his talents from traveling medicine shows and vaudeville up through radio before beginning his film career in 1938.
Death’s Design: the best kills in the darkly comic and delightfully gory Final Destination series • Journal • A Letterboxd Magazine

1 month ago | letterboxd.com | Matt Goldberg |Mia Lee Vicino |Jack Moulton |Jeffrey Reddick

We’ve all felt it at one point or another: the creeping sensation of nervous dread that everything in a mundane situation could go wrong and spell our doom. Maybe we feel it when boarding an airplane, or perhaps it lingers in the pit of our stomachs as we step onto a roller coaster.
Meme or Scheme: a Re-Oriented SEC Suggests a Quasi-Safe Harbor for Memecoins

1 month ago | harris-sliwoski.com | Matt Goldberg

In the roughly two months since the SEC has been under the control of the Trump administration, the agency has largely shut down years of “rulemaking by enforcement” concerning “digital crypto assets.” As recently as late 2024, there was a boatload of SEC enforcement actions underway. Since Trump took office, however, most of the notable enforcement actions have been scuttled, including those against Coinbase, Robinhood, Gemini, OpenSea and MetaMask.
Meme or Scheme: a Re-Oriented SEC Suggests a Quasi-Safe Harbor for Memecoins

1 month ago | lexology.com | Matt Goldberg

In the roughly two months since the SEC has been under the control of the Trump administration, the agency has largely shut down years of “rulemaking by enforcement” concerning “digital crypto assets.” As recently as late 2024, there was a boatload of SEC enforcement actions underway. Since Trump took office, however, most of the notable enforcement actions have been scuttled, including those against Coinbase, Robinhood, Gemini, OpenSea and MetaMask.
Star Wars, James Bond, and Corporate America’s Hunt for Bigger, Not Better

2 months ago | yahoo.com | Matt Goldberg

Who knew audiences would romanticize the days when studios only produced sequels to their hits? Warner Bros. made a Lethal Weapon, it was a hit, so they made a Lethal Weapon 2, and when it turned out Murtaugh (Danny Glover) was not getting too old for this shit, WB made a Lethal Weapon 3 and so forth. Today, sequels aren’t good enough for a studio that wants to stretch their IP further than it will go.
Star Wars, James Bond, and Corporate America’s Hunt for Bigger, Not Better

2 months ago | consequence.net | Matt Goldberg |Liz Shannon Miller

Who knew audiences would romanticize the days when studios only produced sequels to their hits? Warner Bros. made a Lethal Weapon, it was a hit, so they made a Lethal Weapon 2, and when it turned out Murtaugh (Danny Glover) was not getting too old for this shit, WB made a Lethal Weapon 3 and so forth. Today, sequels aren’t good enough for a studio that wants to stretch their IP further than it will go.
‘Last Take’ Review: Looking for Halyna Hutchins’ Legacy in an On-Set Tragedy

2 months ago | malaysia.news.yahoo.com | Matt Goldberg

Matt Goldberg10 March 2025 at 12:00 pm·5-min readYou can feel the grief running through Rachel Mason’s documentary, “Last Take: Rust and the Story of Halyna.” There’s not only the grief felt by “Rust” cinematographer Halyna Hutchins’ friends, family and co-workers, but that her death was then cast into a media firestorm, set to be adjudicated by people indifferent to her life and work.