About Matt Morava

If you love movies as much as I do then you have no problem watching good movies again and again.

So I’ve put together a viewing list of potential double …
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Imagine that disaster porn auteur Roland Emmerich took a few philosophy classes before his next project and was given a limited budget.

That movie might look and feel very much …
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“Peak Television” shows little sign of stopping.

HBO’s mini-series “Big Little Lies” by David E. Kelley is a nice addition to an already packed Sunday night. It recently joined with …
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“Stranger Things” is on almost all of the “best TV shows of 2016” lists.

And rightly so.

The same holds true for “Westworld” “Atlanta” and “Game of Thrones.” “The Americans” …
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I heard an English Lit professor once say, “Throw in a little Shakespeare, and it’s all been derivative since then.”

The story of a character fighting across a forbidding landscape …
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Matt Stone and Trey Parker of “South Park” fame came up with the term “member berries” to lampoon our need for nostalgia, I’d like to serve up a warm slice …
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I’m paraphrasing a bit, but Paley was a stickler for not messing with the viewer by changing around the times and days of programs. That was especially true for the …
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They’re the modern monsters invading our nightmares, courtesy of the Hollywood dream machine.

What about their predecessors?

This Halloween, let’s salute the old school movie monsters who made classic films …
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Titled “Chestnut,” the show’s second week quickly moved beyond the pilot to establish its deeper themes and its bold corporeal potential.

Caution: Story spoilers ahead…

Let’s recap for a moment …
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The full quote is illuminating:

“My mind,” he said, “rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram or the most intricate analysis, …
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