Matt Glasby

Sir Kenneth Branagh’s coming-of-age tale is a sincere portrait of the artist as a young man.

True-ish stories, smart arse dialogue and liberal outrage with a sprinkling of sentiment – ah yes, it’s another Aaron Sorkin movie.

Spielberg has directed his first musical – an old-fashioned film with dazzling sets and dynamic camerawork.

If you can’t stand Stephen Graham’s heat in this “tense, impeccably put-together” drama, get out of the kitchen.

Denis Villeneuve directs the hell out of this highly ambitious adaptation of Frank Herbert’s seminal novel.

Matt Glasby takes a decade-by-decade look at cinema’s scariest.

Upon release, this bona fide classic is supposed to have caused fainting, vomiting and even heart attacks.

“It’s like a sauna. Furnace. You could fry an egg on my stomach. Oooooohhhhh”

There’s a reason it’s up for an Oscar.

The problem – and it’s a biggie – is one of timing.

“Plunges us into a maelstrom of fame so monstrous only Michael Jackson could relate”.

Bad writing lets down a good-as-ever Colin Firth, writes Matt Glasby.

Matt Glasby on the access-all-areas documentary that attempts to get to the bottom of such a confounding man.

All expectation, no eruption.

Feels like an adaptation of an austere 1900s book that’s been lost to the ages.

The exuberant Scot speaks to us about JUMANJI: WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE and her other massive projects.

What really stays with you is the extraordinary, often handheld, camerawork and Baker’s powerful sense of place.

Jude Law is no stranger to playing the role of Pompous Asshole (see Dom Hemingway or Contagion for good examples). In Guy Ritchie’s King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, however, he is straight-up evil as Vortigern. Flicks’ Matt Glasby joined Law around an English round table to find out more about being a villain, working […]

Guy Ritchie’s spent his career playing in the sandpit with quintessentially English characters of both his own design and, more recently, those of others (Sherlock Holmes, and yes, we’re going to half-count The Man from U.N.C.L.E. as it’s one big Bond riff). Hearing Ritchie was tackling a new King Arthur film was therefore hardly surprising, […]

Having received – excuse the pun – a bit of a panning elsewhere, Stephen Gaghan’s lively rise-and-fall drama arrives on these shores as soiled goods. Inspired by true events, it’s the tale of one (made-up) man’s obsessive search for gold. But the real story seems to be star Matthew McConaughey’s elusive search for another Oscar. […]

For an Oscar hopeful, writer/director Kenneth (You Can Count On Me, Margaret) Lonergan’s wry, wrenching drama begins in about as mundane a manner as can be. In a role earmarked for Matt Damon, who produces, Casey Affleck plays Lee Chandler, a glum Boston janitor for whom beer and bar fights provide life’s only fleeting pleasures. […]