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Matt Singer

New York

Managing Editor and Critic at ScreenCrush

Editor/critic at https://t.co/FNXBQAv1On. Member, @nyfcc. Author of Opposable Thumbs and upcoming book on Hollywood comedies of the 2000s.

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Articles

  • 1 week ago | popcrush.com | Matt Singer

    Trailers aren’t built to last. They’re advertisements; they’re placeholders. Once the film they’re designed to promote premieres, a trailer serve no further purpose. Why watch the trailer when you can watch the real thing? At that point, a trailer becomes a cinematic appendix; present but without a clearly designed purpose. Still, we live in a world where pretty much every trailer lives forever online, available whenever and wherever on YouTube.

  • 1 week ago | screencrush.com | Matt Singer

    Today I will discover the hidden world ... inside my large intestines. That’s because I’m about to venture forth on an epic culinary quest. It will take me all the way to a mystic land populated by Vikings and ruled by a just and righteous king who has prepared a succulent feast of victuals roasted by the infernal breath of dragons. Translation: I’m eating everything on the new How to Train Your Dragon menu at Burger King. I might have fudged the mystic land part a little.

  • 1 week ago | screencrush.com | Matt Singer

    No kind of Hollywood movie is more beloved and more reviled than a sequel. People say they’re sick of rehashes of the same stories and characters; they bemoan the lack of originality in film and pine for the good ol’ days when the studios put more resources into creating new intellectual properties instead of repeatedly strip mining the same old ones. That’s what they say.

  • 1 week ago | 929nin.com | Matt Singer

    The "new" millennium is now 25 years old. Old being the key word there. We are all so old. The dude who drinks from the Holy Grail from the end of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade looks at all of us and thinks to himself, "Well, at least I'm not that bad."We are all so old in fact, that films and TV shows of the '90s and 2000s are now prime nostalgia targets. Just look at the monster box-office grosses of the new Lilo & Stitch remake for proof of that.

  • 1 week ago | 929nin.com | Matt Singer

    Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning took a lot of reckoning with to get to its final version. On the Happy Sad Confused podcast, Christopher McQuarrie revealed the extent to which the eighth (and possibly final) Mission: Impossible changed during the editing process - namely a lot. After listening to fans' feedback about the previous Mission: Impossible, Dead Reckoning Part One, McQuarrie says he and producer/star Tom Cruise "pivoted and deconstructed [ The Final Reckoning].

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28 Nov 23

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27 Jan 23

RT @jamesplloyd: I need to rewatch ‘Nope’ (2022)