Matthew Patches

9 Actors Who Turned to Directing…Only to Make One Film

That Thing You Do! is the kind of movie only a man with a particular amount of clout can get… Read More

8 Animated Characters Who Look Disturbingly Like Their Voice Actors

The redeeming quality of the Cars franchise has nothing to do with spectacular visuals, high-octane action or universal bathroom humor.… Read More

12 Shorts That Grew Into Feature-Length Films

These big films started small before hitting the cineplexes. Read More

8 Homages That Come Close To Being Rip-Offs

From first glance, J.J. Abrams’s latest, Super 8, looks like an unbridled homage to ’70s and ’80s era Spielberg movies,… Read More

Sticking Around After the Movie: 12 Notable Post-Credit Sequences

The 3rd Swing, the Accounting Assistant and the Lead Greensman couldn’t be happier for the resurgence of the after credits… Read More

8 Iconic Movie Rules To Live By

Few scenes in movies are as satisfying as a character confronting a rule. Read More

7 Pieces of Post-Graduation Wisdom You Can Learn from Movies

“I want to say one word to you. Just one word: plastics.”Apparently half-drunk, distant-relatives looooove The Graduate - or at… Read More

Interview: Panos Cosmatos Takes Us Back to the Past to the Future in ‘Beyond the Black Rainbow’

Panos Cosmatos’s first film Beyond the Black Rainbow, which premiered at last week’s Tribeca Film Festival in New York, is… Read More

14 Variant Logos That Prove Even Studios Enjoy Having a Little Fun

Studio logos are an iconography all their own, but nothing puts a grin on my face like a spiffy send-up… Read More