Articles by Matthew Ritchie

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  Mojave

  Directed by William Monahan

  PUBLISHED Feb 9, 2016

  Mojave, novelist-turned-screenwriter/director William Monahan's (The Departed) pseudo-cerebral, vaguely Hitchcockian thriller, is the kind...

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  The Finest Hours

  Craig Gillespie

  PUBLISHED Jan 28, 2016

  The Finest Hours, director Craig Gillespie's (Lars and the Real Girl) take on the daring true story of a small American Coast Guard team wh...

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  Dirty Grandpa

  Dan Mazer

  PUBLISHED Jan 22, 2016

  There are few things as embarrassing and uncomfortable as listening to an elderly family member say something inappropriate. That seems to...

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  The 5th Wave

  J Blakeson

  PUBLISHED Jan 21, 2016

  January has long been the film industry's version of the New Jersey Meadowlands, the perfect place to dump their most toxic trash away from...

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  13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi

  Michael Bay

  PUBLISHED Jan 15, 2016

  Compared to the rest of director Michael Bay's testosterone-fuelled filmography, his latest movie, 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghaz...

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  Svengali

  John Hardwick

  PUBLISHED Jan 13, 2016

  Behind every great band is a great manager.   That's one of the sentiments Welsh producer, actor and writer extraordinaire Jonny Owen tries...

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  Point Break

  Ericson Core

  PUBLISHED Dec 25, 2015

  It's hard to imagine someone watching future Academy Award-winner Kathryn Bigelow's surf-heavy, action crime thriller Point Break and wanti...

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  The Big Short

  Adam McKay

  PUBLISHED Dec 23, 2015

  Author Michael Lewis may reportedly get paid around $10 per word for his simple yet stunning prose, but The Blind Side notwithstanding (and...