matthew cooper – Page 18 – Script writer for hire and UK script consultant

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

19th November 2015 @matcoop 0

As a youngster I had a friend who was a teenage Woody Allen fan. He got me into the Woodman as a youth. Mostly, I’ve […]

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 […]

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 […]

8th November 2015 @matcoop 0

I enjoy classic Hammer and this is by no means classic Hammer. Blood from the Mummy’s Tomb does have a few things to recommend it […]

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 […]

1st November 2015 @matcoop 0

This blogpost isn’t just about Le Circle Rouge or Un Flic, it’s about the collective body of work of Jean Pierre Melville. You need to […]

1st November 2015 @matcoop 0

Something happened in Manchester starting in the late 1970s and going on right up to the late 90s. What happened was mostly orchestrated by a […]