Film Brain

Absolutely, it really shows how much he has improved.

And man, 2014... that's so long ago already.

I agree. He's certainly no Lindsay Ellis but I always thought he was one of the better critics on that hellsite. Projector was where he was at his best, I honestly don't mind he doesn't do that other show anymore.

Me neither, he has turned into an excellent critic who really knows his movies.

Mathew takes a look at the latest Brad Pitt action film, Bullet Train:

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Edited by Deacon911 on Sep 14th 2022 at 5:22:41 AM

This is the Movie Palette website.

For context, Mathew's latest review of Orphan: First Kill is sponsored by Movie Palette.

Last night Mat reviewed the recent survival thriller film Fall:

This feels like a stealth ad for the infrastructure bill.

A few hours ago Mat looked at the throwback to 80's exploitation thrillers The Retaliators:

Mathew takes a look at Blackbird, a Vanity Project spy thriller by Michael Flatley that may just take the title of the biggest So Bad, It's Good film of 2022:

As I happen to be on a nostalgia binge, I've watched (or listened to, mostly) every BMB in the past week. As much as it hasn't aged well, I always admired how Buck tended to stick to actually reviewing the subject rather than make shit up for the sake of a gag like his peers were at the time (looking at you, Antwiler).

That said, I found his Project X video to probably be his weakest episode. I'm no fan of the movie, it's a shameless ripoff of Ferris Bueller and Jackass, but calling it "dangerous" was a bit too much. Regardless of a work's content, it's still just a piece of fiction. I get people imitated the events of the movie but that's really on them than the movie itself. Kubrick said it better himself:

Yes, he had A Clockwork Orange withdrew from the UK during his lifetime but only after those accusing him of promoting violence sent him death threats.

Mathew takes a look at the latest Sleeper Hit horror film this year, Smile (2022):

Last night Mat posted his newest Projector video, of the George Clooney Julia Roberts Rom Com Ticket to Paradise:

Mathew kicks off his coverage of the London Film Festival with his review on The Good Nurse, a true-crime drama about a nurse who kills his patients.

Matthew covers the Scream franchise in anticipation of his review of Scream 6:

And as a follow-up to that video, Mathew takes a look at Scream VI, which he listed as the third best film in the series.

A little bit delayed, but Mat looks at the latest attempt to bring Dungeons & Dragons to the big screen with Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves:

Mathew takes a look at The Pope's Exorcist, a movie where Russell Crowe dons a terrible Italian accent and recreates pretty much every scare from The Exorcist series:

one of Russell Crowe's career lows

Edited by Ultimatum on Apr 17th 2023 at 3:27:08 PM

It's also apparently a bit of Catholic apologia, implying that recent real-world scandals were just the result of possessions.

Mathew takes a look at the film adaptation of the Alan Bennett play Allelujah, which may contain one of the worst twist endings he's seen in 2023:

Was… Was that twist in the play? >.> In any case, I can’t believe multiple read that script and all gave it the greenlight. What the fuck.

For those who want to know without watching the whole thing: The main nurse turns out to be a mass-murdering psychopath who's been giving every incontinent patient milk laced with morphine. Then it has the balls to shoehorn in a COVID thing and a sermonette about the goodness of the health care system.

I see two solutions to this: either don't make a twist ending at all or make things clearly dark and fucked at the start. No half measures.

Edited by Weirdguy149 on May 4th 2023 at 9:42:15 AM

Mathew takes a look at the latest instalment of the Marvel Cinematic Universe with Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3: