DARKMATTERS - The Mind Of Matt (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
Law Abiding Citizen (18) Dir. F. Gary Gray Reviewed by Matt Adcock What would you do if your wife and child were brutalized and murdered in front of you whilst you lay stabbed and potentially dying? This is the hard hitting opening gambit of Law Abiding Citizen – a thought provoking and slick revenge action effort. So we have nice guy Clyde Shelton (an in form Gerald Butler) taking...
DARKMATTERS - The Mind Of Matt (Free subscription) | 29/11/2009
Pirates Don't Clean Their Teeth by Adrian Summerson Reviewed by Matt Adcock Pirates eh? Bloodthirsty ne'er-do-wells that will cut your throat if you so much as look at them the wrong way... One can only imagine how bad their personal hygiene is - but now a new in depth investigation by renowned Pirate hunter Adrian Summerson has blown the lid off the seedy world of pirate dental practices...
DARKMATTERS - The Mind Of Matt (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
The Twilight Saga: New Moon (12a) Dir. Chris Weitz Reviewed by Matt Adcock ONE WORD SUMMATION: fangs-for-nothing Prepare yourself for the swoon-em-up sequel to one of last year’s dullest yet most successful films… Yes the money making, tween girl pleasing, vampire/werewolf love triangle storms back into cinemas taking millions of dollars (biggest opening day in history to...
DARKMATTERS - The Mind Of Matt (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Harry Brown (18) Dir. Daniel Barber Reviewed by Matt Adcock ONE WORD SUMMATION: granturino-uk If you can’t beat em – shoot em! That’s the motto of vengeful pensioner Harry Brown (an excellent Sir Michael Caine), a man driven to take drastic vigilante action when his friend is brutally murdered by a gang of feral youths. Harry Brown is a powerful, violent and deeply shocking...
DARKMATTERS - The Mind Of Matt (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
Jennifer’s Body (15) Dir. Karyn Kusama Reviewed by Matt Adcock ONE WORD SUMMATION: grisslybabelicious Some girls are just bad news… But none can measure up to the sexy Jennifer (Megan ‘Transformers’ Fox) who sets a whole new standard in being evil. It’s not just that she’s brazen, self centred, slutty and manipulative bitch – Jennifer is literally...
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...
