Poltergeist is still awesome, thirty-five years later… By Matthew Martin| October 25, 2017 Movie Blogs The bizarre PG horror movie never should have worked, but thanks to the skill of Spielberg it succeeds as one of the best horror films of its class... Poltergeist is still awesome, thirty-five years later… By Matthew Martin| October 25, 2017 Movie Blogs The bizarre PG horror movie never should have worked, but thanks to the skill of Spielberg it succeeds as one of the best horror films of its class...
REVIEW: Close Encounters of the Third Kind is (still) magical By Matthew Martin| September 4, 2017 Movie Reviews 40 years later, and now back in theaters, Close Encounters of the Third Kind remains one of the finest science fiction stories told in the last half-century... REVIEW: Close Encounters of the Third Kind is (still) magical By Matthew Martin| September 4, 2017 Movie Reviews 40 years later, and now back in theaters, Close Encounters of the Third Kind remains one of the finest science fiction stories told in the last half-century...
The BFG Review: For a rainy day recess By Matthew Martin| July 4, 2016 Movie Reviews I have vivid memories of being a kid in school and hating the rain. It always made the day gloomy and seem to drag endlessly longer than a typical---sunny---day would have. And the tile floors would always become slippery, with speckles of dirt on th... The BFG Review: For a rainy day recess By Matthew Martin| July 4, 2016 Movie Reviews I have vivid memories of being a kid in school and hating the rain. It always made the day gloomy and seem to drag endlessly longer than a typical---sunny---day would have. And the tile floors would a...
Bridge of Spies Review: Spielberg, Hanks and the Coens By Matthew Martin| October 18, 2015 Movie Reviews This is the classic sort of movie that could have easily been made a generation prior, with Alfred Hitchcock directing Cary Grant from a screenplay by Truman Capote. Bridge of Spies Review: Spielberg, Hanks and the Coens By Matthew Martin| October 18, 2015 Movie Reviews This is the classic sort of movie that could have easily been made a generation prior, with Alfred Hitchcock directing Cary Grant from a screenplay by Truman Capote.