Posted in Matt Hurt's Columns, Movie Reviews
Tagged 2017, columns, Matt Hurt, Movie Review
Premise: An ordinary man makes an extraordinary discovery when a train accident leaves his fellow passengers dead—and him unscathed. The answer to this mystery could lie with the mysterious Elijah Price, a man who suffers from a disease that renders his bones as fragile as glass.
It may be easy to forget that M. Night Shyamalan’s follow up to his breakout hit The Sixth Sense came at a time when the vast majority of comic book movies were poorly made garbage to sell merchandise. But before Christopher Nolan really changed the game with The Dark Knight Trilogy, Shyamalan made a grounded comic book movie that was, at its heart, a love letter to comic books themselves and the storytelling within that medium. Underappreciated in its own time, Unbreakable went onto attain cult status and still holds up to repeat viewings to this day.
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Tagged 2000, columns, Matt Hurt, Movie Review
Premise: Follow Alex Honnold as he becomes the first person to ever free solo climb Yosemite’s 3,000ft high El Capitan Wall. With no ropes or safety gear, he completed arguably the greatest feat in rock climbing history.
I went into Free Solo wondering what could possibly possess a person to climb anything without ropes or harnesses. It is a lifestyle that I am so far away from, I simply can’t fathom it. And right off the bat, the documentary addresses this question in the form of an interview that Free Solo‘s subject, Alex Honnold, was in on television. His rationale is that anyone can die at any time, what difference does it make if you’re thousands of feet in the air with only a fingernail’s worth of space keeping you from plummeting?
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Tagged 2018, columns, Documentary, IMAX, Indiana state museum, Matt Hurt, Movie Review
Premise: A comedic look at the relationship between a wealthy man with quadriplegia and an unemployed man with a criminal record who’s hired to help him.
The Upside is a pretty middle of the road comedy that’s fairly inoffensive, if unimaginative in its execution. It’s a remake of the 2011 French film The Intouchables. It premiered at TIFF in 2017 and finally got a wide theatrical release now in 2019.
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Tagged 2019, columns, Matt Hurt, Movie Review
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OV267 – Bonus Ep – Escape Room, Mike’s 400th Movie Night, and Random Thoughts on Film Criticism
In this bonus episode, Mike and I review the new horror/thriller movie, Escape Room. We also talk about Mike’s latest milestone in his long-running Movie Night tradition, amateur film criticism, and then we end the episode with a bunch of tangents.
This week’s stinger comes from our Patreon-exclusive recording: 013 – OV B-Roll – Mike’s DVD Trunk, Buying Physical vs Digital, The Current Era of Video Renting, and “Mike Watched Adult Movies as a Kid” – Jan 5, 2019
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OV266 – 2018 Year in Review – Best and Worst Movies of the Year and Viewing Stats
Happy 2019 and welcome to The Obsessive Viewer’s 2018 Year in Review episode! It’s our annual episode where Tiny, Mike, and myself share our movie viewing stats for the year, our top ten favorite movies list, and otherwise just nerd out about our year in movies and life! So buckle in and prepare yourself for the episode we always looking forward to and enjoy!
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In our final episode of 2018, Tiny and I review the new Alfonso Cuaron movie, Roma. Then, in our potpourri segment, I share my thoughts on the coming of age movie, All Summers End and season 2 of Big Mouth while Tiny shares his thoughts on The Ranch season 5.
This week’s stinger comes from our Patreon-exclusive recording: 012 – OV B-Roll – Tiny’s Progress, Movie Related Goals For 2019, Mission Impossible Fallout, Hotel Artemis, and “How Many Movies Should Be In Our Top Movies List?” – Dec 27, 2018
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In this bonus episode, Fekkes and I review the new DCEU movie, Aquaman, determine it’s place within the DCEU, and discuss the future of DC movies. We also talk about the insanely bizarre Kevin Spacey YouTube video, “Let Me Be Frank” that was posted on Christmas Eve, discuss Star Wars Episode IX news, and I share my thoughts on the Netflix doc The American Meme.
This week’s stinger comes from our Patreon-exclusive recording: 011 – OV B-Roll – Fekkes’ Collection, Favorite Bonus Features on Blu-Ray/DVD, DJ Matty Fresh on the 1s and 2s, and “Should We Abandon Our Physical Media?” – Dec 26, 2018
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This week, Kyrsten and I review the new Robert Zemeckis movie, Welcome to Marwen and then we offer mini-reviews of Bohemian Rhapsody, and Blindspotting. I also share a harrowing theater experience. We also check in with each other on our TV show swap segment LOSTPoint. In this week’s segment, we discuss Flashpoint (S01E02-03 – First in Line & The Element of Surprise) and LOST (S01E02-03 – Pilot Part 2 & Tabula Rosa).
This week’s stinger comes from our Patreon-exclusive recording:010 – OV B-Roll – Kyrsten’s Presence, Family Christmas Traditions, Favorite Christmas Gifts, and “What Christmas Movie Would We Program for 24 Hours on Christmas Day?” – Dec 22, 2018
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This week, Mike and I review Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and Mandy (as a special Patreon Review). We also discuss A-List and Letterboxd (as per usual), and Mike’s Ten Years of Shock list. For potpourri, we rapid-fire talk Creed II, Hereditary, Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, Cam, Silent Night Deadly Night, The Mule, and Cheap Thrills.
This week’s stinger comes from our Patreon-exclusive recording: 009 – OV B-Roll – Mike’s Process, The Favourite Isn’t Really On Our Radar, Ralph Breaks the Internet, The Christmas Chronicles, yes and “Matt Has Little to No Improv Skills” – Dec 17, 2018
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This week, Tiny and I review the latest Jeremy Saulnier movie, Hold the Dark. We also discuss the Avengers: Endgame trailer, Kevin Hart’s Oscar debacle, and Tiny and Kyrsten vying for the title of Matt Hurt Movie Theater Companion. For Potpourri, we talk about The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel season 2,The Tale, and Green Book. This week’s stinger comes from our Patreon-exclusive recording: 008 – Tiny’s Planning, Movies From 2018 We Still Need To See, BlacKkKlansman, The Grinch, and “Weird Flex Patreon, But Okay”
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This week, Fekkes and I go in depth with our review of the latest Wizarding World movie, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald. In Potpourri, we talk about the documentary Finders Keepers, Creed II, and Instant Family.
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This week, Kyrsten and I discuss the movies we’ve watched recently in the theater. Movies we discuss include Widows, Overlord, A Star is Born, and First Man. We also began our TV show swap project tentatively titled “Matt Introduces Kyrsten to the Best TV Show and Kyrsten Shows Matt a TV Show.” In this week’s segment, we watch and discuss Flashpoint (S01E01 – Scorpio) and Lost (S01E01 – Pilot Part 1).
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This week, Tiny and I settle in for a good, old-fashioned Extended Potpourri episode. We discuss Stan Lee’s passing, the 10th anniversary of The Shield’s series finale, the obnoxiousness of Bill Maher, and a bevy of movies and shows we’ve been watching.
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This week, Tiny and I pick movies from each other’s Letterboxd diaries for discussion in an extended Letterboxd-edition of potpourri. We also talk about AMC A-List, news of the Breaking Bad movie, and more.
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