Author: Matthew Monagle

HBO Spoiler warning: This article contains talk of the events within True Detective season 2, episode 2, “Night Finds You.” If you haven’t watched the…

HBO What is True Detective? After fifteen months of wild speculation, endless #TrueDetectiveSeason2 pairings, and enough casting backlash to make even DC Entertainment cringe, last…

Touchstone Pictures Over the years, people have made a great deal of money off the technological and futuristic fears of Michael Crichton. In 1994 alone,…

There’s something liberating about seeing an advance screening of a film without needing to file a review. The need to form an instantaneous opinion is…

In 2015, critic Matthew Monagle explored what we can learn from the success of Letty, as played by Michelle Rodriguez in the Fast and Furious franchise.

In the real world, I spend a lot of time with executives. I work in the field of employee development; many of my days are…

Marvel This past weekend, I stepped into American Sniper prepared to enter a battleground of political ideologies. Here is a film that has been depicted…

Universal Pictures Some movies are so much better than the sum of their parts that they defy easy explanation. A director suddenly shifts his visual…

Artwork by edgarascensao on DeviantArt The year is 1989 and Brent Maddock and S.S. Wilson finally have their screenplay. The two men – established purveyors…