Matt Patches

6 days ago | polygon.com | Matt Patches

Matt Patches is an executive editor at Polygon. He has over 15 years of experience reporting on movies and TV, and reviewing pop culture. Nearly 22 years after Danny Boyle shook up the zombie genre with 28 Days Later, the director makes a return to the saga of the infested with this week’s 28 Years Later. As the title implies, it’s been a long time coming.

1 week ago | polygon.com | Matt Patches

28 Days Later offered a singular twist on a horror trope: Instead of the dead rising up from the graves, the “zombies” of Danny Boyle’s zombie movie would be normal humans transformed by the man-made “Rage Virus.” And they could run.

1 week ago | polygon.com | Matt Patches

Image: Paramount PicturesMatt Patches is an executive editor at Polygon. He has over 15 years of experience reporting on movies and TV, and reviewing pop culture. Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning was not a good movie — but I don’t know if even polarizing stunt-junkie Tom Cruise deserved the amount of shade thrown his way earlier this week.

1 week ago | polygon.com | Matt Patches

Takashi Iizuka, the head of Sega’s Sonic Team, knows speed. So when it came to developing a new Sonic Racing game, Crossworlds, there was an obvious question: Just how fast could Sonic and his squad go in the current-gen era? Because, you know, they gotta go fast. “Sonic is known for speed and we like putting that into our racing games, but it was one of the challenges the team had when they went to develop the game,” Iizuka told Polygon via an interpreter during a play session at Summer Game Fest.

2 weeks ago | polygon.com | Matt Patches

Matt Patches is an executive editor at Polygon. He has over 15 years of experience reporting on movies and TV, and reviewing pop culture. Coraline, the debut feature of the stop-motion studio Laika, was a modest hit in 2009, earning just over $75 million in the U.S.. But over the years, the macabre coming-of-age tale earned cult status, and when Fathom Events put it back in theaters last summer, it made another $33 million — a total that’s basically unheard of for most modern re-releases.