State of Grace

4th December 2015 @matcoop 0

Phil Joanu’s State of Grace was released at the same time as Goodfellas. Goodfellas is about the mafia (mainly Italian descent gangsters). State of Grace […]

Dagon

3rd December 2015 @matcoop 0

Dagon by Stuart Gordon is an odd one. It’s based on the HP Lovecraft short story A Shadow over Innsmouth (which is a personal obsession […]

The Homesman

3rd December 2015 @matcoop 0

Tommy Lee Jones’ The Homesman is the newest film I’ve blogged about so far. I caught this little gem on Amazon Prime and watched it […]

Near Dark

20th November 2015 @matcoop 0

Near Dark is an early film by Kathryn Bigelow, who also directed Point Break. Once seen Near Dark is difficult to forget. This is mainly […]

From Beyond

20th November 2015 @matcoop 0

Ah the joys! Stuart Gordon’s From Beyond is a great little film. Very low budget, very odd, based on a seven page HP Lovecraft story […]

Rounders

14th November 2015 @matcoop 0

I love Rounders, the script had been around for a while and apparently turned down by every studio that read it at least once. It’s […]

Tin Men

14th November 2015 @matcoop 0

Barry Levinson made a really good film about ‘the boys’ chatting. The film was called Diner and is worth seeing. However, he made another film […]

Mad Men

7th November 2015 @matcoop 0

Yep, it’s not a film, and it’s all the better for it. Mad Men is about the guys and gals who worked in the advertising […]