Matthew W. Quinn

3 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Georgia Wilkins |Matthew W. Quinn

I grew up in a predominantly white Christian community in Sydney’s western suburbs. I was a pretty traumatised, messed-up kid. I had a lot of anger, mostly towards the people closest to me, but because I couldn’t do anything about that I just went around with a lot of rage that I had no way of getting rid of. Illustration: Guardian Design/Speed Media/Shutterstock/Getty ImagesA family member had a hatred of ‘“Asians’” because of the second world war.

Oct 5, 2024 | matthewwquin.substack.com | Matthew W. Quinn

Back in the 1970s, there were a lot of “nature strikes back” horror films with killer animals. The most notable one is Jaws (check out this podcast I’m in about it), but I’ve also seen the killer-rabbit Night of the Lepus and mercury-poisoned deformed-bear Prophecy. Thanks to Drive-In Delirium: Final Conflict that I’d mentioned in a previous email, I found out about Squirm.

Aug 17, 2024 | matthewwquin.substack.com | Matthew W. Quinn

Once upon a time, the film podcast Myopia Movies that I’ve been a regular participant on since 2014 had a Patreon-only series on the Alien films. Eventually the episode on Alien Resurrection was released to the general public. Although I enjoyed the movie, it seems like most of the podcast crew had other opinions, as did the movie-going public. It made $161M worldwide against a $70M budget, which means if it made a profit it was only narrow.

Aug 4, 2024 | greenocktelegraph.co.uk | Matthew W. Quinn

Matthew Quinn, MSYP, highlights the importance of Rights of Child Act (Image: Newsquest) The Scottish Parliament recently enshrined the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) into Scots Law in a move that will prove to be game-changing for generations to come. The UNCRC, which applies to everyone below the age of 18, is taught in schools to demonstrate to children what life would look like for them in a just and equal world.

May 11, 2024 | matthewwquin.substack.com | Matthew W. Quinn

In late November I watched the Roger Corman movie Forbidden World on Tubi after finding some discussion of it on a Facebook group dedicated to horror films of the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. It had some good ideas, but was marred by being too short, the soundtrack not syncing up with the onscreen action for the last ten or fifteen minutes (to be fair this might have been a Tubi problem), and some characters’ actions not making a lot of sense. Well, it’s easy to complain.