Eyes Wide Shut

11th December 2016 @matcoop 0

As a script writer for hire I’m a big fan of Stanley Kubrick, I’ve read all the books, watched all the films multiple times and […]

The Monster Squad

4th December 2016 @matcoop 0

Fred Dekker’s The Monster Squad from 1987 is hard to get hold of now. I eventually got my hands a Far Eastern copy and decided […]

The Way Back

27th November 2016 @matcoop 0

Peter Weir’s The Way Back is good movie to have handy for Christmas. It’s a tough and long adventure movie about fugitives escaping from the […]

20 Million Miles to Earth

12th November 2016 @matcoop 0

Now we’re getting to real genius, despite the film business being filled with very, very clever people (and some real bozos) real genius is hard […]

The Hunger

29th October 2016 @matcoop 0

Tony Scott’s The Hunger from 1983 is a stylish and delicious vampire tale that’s vastly underrated. Like his brother Ridley, the late Tony Scott was […]

The Day of the Jackal

23rd October 2016 @matcoop 0

As a script writer for hire I spend a fair amount of time doing different things, beyond actually writing scripts. One of these is research; […]

Caligula

16th October 2016 @matcoop 0

Well, this might be controversial, but I’d suggest that the infamous Caligula (1979) is worth seeing. The film has had a long troubled history and […]

Argo

16th October 2016 @matcoop 0

As a UK script writer for hire I’ve been hired on some bizarre jobs by some very interesting people, eccentric millionaires wanting to get into […]

Wild Bill

9th October 2016 @matcoop 0

I was browsing through the movies on Netflix the other day when I saw Walter Hill’s Wild Bill – brilliant I thought, I’ll watch that […]