DARKMATTERS - The Mind Of Matt (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
The Men Who Stare At Goats (15) Dir. Grant Heslov Reviewed by Matt Adcock ONE WORD SUMMATION: Goatbusters What I’m about to share with you is highly confidential. My name is Lyn Cassady and I’m what you might describe as a psychic spy. People also refer to me as a Jedi warrior – because of my incredible ‘mental’ abilities – because I’m strong...
DARKMATTERS - The Mind Of Matt (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Dead Man Running (15) Dir. Alex De Rakoff Reviewed by Matt Adcock ONE WORD SUMMATION: Gangsta-trippin And it’s Rio Ferdinand, he passes to Ashley Cole... Cole passes to um, Danny Dyer and Dyer plays a lovely through ball to erm, 50 cent!? No this is not an all star football game, but rather a Brit gangster effort called ‘Dead Man Running’ (ok I lied about the ball, Cole...
DARKMATTERS - The Mind Of Matt (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
Borderlands PS3 Developer: Gearbox Software Publisher: 2K Games Reviewed by Matt Adcock ONE WORD SUMMATION: gunporn-onlineheaven Charlie Brooker said on his fun one-shot TV programme ‘Gameswipe’: “Shooting people in the face never gets old” - just one of the excellent observations made (alongside profiling the history of gaming and showing up pompous twats like...
DARKMATTERS - The Mind Of Matt (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
Fantastic Mr Fox (PG) Dir. Wes Anderson Reviewed by Matt Adcock ONE WORD SUMMATION: fantastic-cussing-foxbusiness You may well know the tale of evil farmers ‘Boggis and Bunce and Bean’ - one fat, one short, one lean. Each was a horrible crook, so different in looks but none the less equally mean… But hero of this Roald Dahl adaptation is the quote / unquote “Fantastic”...
DSLRBLOG (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
... Crash Taylor, David Beckstead, David Ziser, Anna Kuperberg, Glen Johnson, Ben Chrisman, and Matt Adcock / Sol Tamargo from Del Sol Photography. If you pay attention to the world of wedding photography, you should recognize many of these names. Beckstead and Chrisman have both been named as the WPJA’s Photographer of the Year in various years. Five of these member have been named among...
DARKMATTERS - The Mind Of Matt (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith Reviewed by Matt Adcock As a young boy I suffered terribly at the hands of my Jane Austen crazed mother. Before I started school I had read Pride and Prejudice and could recite every line uttered by the infamous Mr Darcy – owning to having had to ‘act’ out various scenes for the viewing pleasure of...
DARKMATTERS - The Mind Of Matt (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (12a) Dir. Terry Gilliam Reviewed by Matt Adcock ONE WORD SUMMATION: Imaginariaussus Dare you step in the crazed ‘Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus’ – if so you’ll witness wonders from the deepest Monty Python addled recesses of fantasy. Be careful though, don’t come expecting a plot that you can grasp easily or for that...
DARKMATTERS - The Mind Of Matt (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Zombieland (15) Dir. Ruben Fleischer Reviewed by Matt Adcock ONE WORD SUMMATION: topzombie Welcome to Zombieland – a near future USA where pretty much everyone has been turned into crazed flesh eating zombies by a strange ‘mad cow derivative’ virus. There are a few souls who did not succumb to zombiedom but these unfortunates now find themselves on the menu and in need...
DARKMATTERS - The Mind Of Matt (Free subscription) | 05/10/2009
The Invention of Lying (12a) Dir. Ricky Gervais and Matthew Robinson Reviewed by Matt Adcock ONE WORD SUMMATION: Godbothering Imagine a world where nobody can lie – not even to create fiction or do any promotional spin. So, in keeping with the spirit of this alternative reality, here’s my fully honest review of the weak and slightly boring new ‘comedy’ film...
DARKMATTERS - The Mind Of Matt (Free subscription) | 01/10/2009
Surrogates (12) Dir. Jonathan Mostow Reviewed by Matt Adcock ONE WORD SUMMATION: i-Robot-too What do you get if you take a cool graphic novel, add Bruce Willis and let the director of Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines loose with it? Well, ‘Surrogates’ it seems… Oh dear… I don’t know what happened but Surrogates which had everything going for it to be a...
DARKMATTERS - The Mind Of Matt (Free subscription) | 28/09/2009
Fame (PG) Dir. Kevin Tancharoen Reviewed by Matt Adcock ONE WORD SUMMATION: Remembermyname “Baby look at me, and tell me what you see. You ain't seen the best of me yet, give me time I'll make you forget the rest…” Fame is back retooled for a new generation and much to my wife’s disgust – without a legwarmer in sight… The basic plot is the same, take...
DARKMATTERS - The Mind Of Matt (Free subscription) | 24/09/2009
Gamer (18) Dir. Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor, who also made CRANK and CRANK: High Voltage Reviewed by Matt Adcock ONE WORD SUMMATION: shoot-frag-shag-em-up If Sci-fi shoot em up Gamer is to be believed then the future of gaming consists of nano-cells... They’re real small critters, a thousand times smaller than dust particles... If you inhaled a cloud of them you wouldn’t...
