The Outsiders

3rd October 2015 @matcoop 0

Silly, but after writing about Rumblefish, I felt I had to write about The Outsiders. The two films were made back to back by Coppola, […]

Rumblefish

3rd October 2015 @matcoop 0

We all love Francis, and I think his career is one of the closest to Welles’ in the modern day. Yet, Welles never gave up […]

McCabe and Mrs. Miller

26th September 2015 @matcoop 0

We’re coming up to October 2015, winter is coming. One of the great films to watch in winter is Robert Altman’s McCabe and Mrs.Miller. It’s […]

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Dirty Harry

19th September 2015 @matcoop 0

Don Siegal could direct. He’d been around Hollywood since the golden age. He could edit too, he could cut and shoot, like Dirty Harry, played […]

The Fog

The Fog

12th September 2015 @matcoop 0

John Carpenter is one of my favourite directors, his films are boyish fun. I will blog about Halloween, In the Mouth of Madness, Escape from […]

Cannonball

The Cannonball Run

25th August 2015 @matcoop 0

I can hear you all laughing! But, The Cannonball Run starring Burt Reynolds is a film I grew up with. Released in 1981 and a […]

sopranos

The Sopranos

18th July 2015 @matcoop 0

I seem to have gone down the road of writing about a lot of gangster movies. My favourite film critic David Thompson has identified that […]

American Gangster

American Gangster

18th July 2015 @matcoop 0

The script for American Gangster had been knocking around for years, and people didn’t really want to make it until Ridley Scott came onboard. I […]

Matthew Cooper Script writer

Super 8

12th July 2015 @matcoop 0

I like Super 8 because it reminds me of my youth making super 8mm cine films with a small group of like minded friends. It […]