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@mattmccrac.bsky.social
Teacher | Film Writer for inreviewonline.com | Letterboxd: https://t.ly/tkmD9 | NI 🛫 PRC 🛫 ENG | ☭
Busy and pretty damn exhausting times work wise, not least with a lingering cold, but I have succeeded at getting 13-14 years olds writing meaningfully about Anselm, Aquinas, Hume, Descartes and Spinoza - so I'll take the wins where I can get them.
November 14, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Busy and pretty damn exhausting times work wise, not least with a lingering cold, but I have succeeded at getting 13-14 years olds writing meaningfully about Anselm, Aquinas, Hume, Descartes and Spinoza - so I'll take the wins where I can get them.
Caught a classic last night at the London East Asia Film Festival 📽️
My ★★★★★ review of Hard Boiled (1992): boxd.it/bsYa2B
My ★★★★★ review of Hard Boiled (1992): boxd.it/bsYa2B
October 24, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Caught a classic last night at the London East Asia Film Festival 📽️
My ★★★★★ review of Hard Boiled (1992): boxd.it/bsYa2B
My ★★★★★ review of Hard Boiled (1992): boxd.it/bsYa2B
Have a ticket for THE SECRET AGENT Saturday 18th October @ 11:30am at the BFI IMAX, seat G13
Looking for someone interested in a ticket swap for the 2:30pm screening the Vue West End also Sat 18th Oct
@lffstubs.bsky.social #LFF #lff2025 #lff25 #lffstubs
Looking for someone interested in a ticket swap for the 2:30pm screening the Vue West End also Sat 18th Oct
@lffstubs.bsky.social #LFF #lff2025 #lff25 #lffstubs
October 16, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Have a ticket for THE SECRET AGENT Saturday 18th October @ 11:30am at the BFI IMAX, seat G13
Looking for someone interested in a ticket swap for the 2:30pm screening the Vue West End also Sat 18th Oct
@lffstubs.bsky.social #LFF #lff2025 #lff25 #lffstubs
Looking for someone interested in a ticket swap for the 2:30pm screening the Vue West End also Sat 18th Oct
@lffstubs.bsky.social #LFF #lff2025 #lff25 #lffstubs
October 15, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Have a ticket for THE SECRET AGENT Saturday 18th October @ 11:30am at the BFI IMAX, seat G13
Looking for someone interested in a ticket swap for the 2:30pm screening the Vue West End also Sat 18th Oct
@lffstubs.bsky.social #LFF #lff2025 #lff25 #lffstubs
Looking for someone interested in a ticket swap for the 2:30pm screening the Vue West End also Sat 18th Oct
@lffstubs.bsky.social #LFF #lff2025 #lff25 #lffstubs
My ★★★★½ review of Bi Gan's RESURRECTION (2025) on @letterboxd.social: boxd.it/bjLAbn
#lff #lff2025 📽️
#lff #lff2025 📽️
A ★★★★½ review of Resurrection (2025)
"Sleeper, awake! Rise from the dead..." - Ephesians 5:14 Variations on sleeping, arising and the shattering sonambulance time etches on the dreamer-waker. Likely Bi's most concerted iteration of his p...
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October 12, 2025 at 8:50 AM
My ★★★★½ review of Bi Gan's RESURRECTION (2025) on @letterboxd.social: boxd.it/bjLAbn
#lff #lff2025 📽️
#lff #lff2025 📽️
Boy and Bicycle + The Duelists on 35mm, with Ridley Scott!
October 4, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Boy and Bicycle + The Duelists on 35mm, with Ridley Scott!
20 faves of all time? Why not!
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August 24, 2025 at 1:10 PM
20 faves of all time? Why not!
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Faves of the 2020s so far
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August 23, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Faves of the 2020s so far
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A BETTER TOMORROW (1986, John Woo)
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BLACKHAT (2015, Michael Mann)
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BLACKHAT (2015, Michael Mann)
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August 21, 2025 at 1:04 PM
A BETTER TOMORROW (1986, John Woo)
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BLACKHAT (2015, Michael Mann)
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BLACKHAT (2015, Michael Mann)
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My ★★★★★ review of From the Clouds to the Resistance (1979) on @letterboxd.social 📽️: boxd.it/aKyyvT
A ★★★★★ review of From the Clouds to the Resistance (1979)
Millennia pass, history marches on, but the task of tearing down heaven and the gods, wherever this transcendence is mythologised, in order to claim and enfranchise the Earth and its peoples, remains.
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August 16, 2025 at 10:59 AM
My ★★★★★ review of From the Clouds to the Resistance (1979) on @letterboxd.social 📽️: boxd.it/aKyyvT
Tempted to say I was cooking here, all the way back in 2016:
"Surely one of the first films that might have, so it seems, captured the world on screen."
My ★★★★★ review of Mahjong (1996) on @letterboxd.social 📽️: boxd.it/8Y7Tz
"Surely one of the first films that might have, so it seems, captured the world on screen."
My ★★★★★ review of Mahjong (1996) on @letterboxd.social 📽️: boxd.it/8Y7Tz
A ★★★★★ review of Mahjong (1996)
I'm tempted to say Mahjong is among the best expressions of what a truly international cinema could look like, particularly as it is originating from East Asian filmmakers (I'm going to go ahead and i...
boxd.it
August 14, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Tempted to say I was cooking here, all the way back in 2016:
"Surely one of the first films that might have, so it seems, captured the world on screen."
My ★★★★★ review of Mahjong (1996) on @letterboxd.social 📽️: boxd.it/8Y7Tz
"Surely one of the first films that might have, so it seems, captured the world on screen."
My ★★★★★ review of Mahjong (1996) on @letterboxd.social 📽️: boxd.it/8Y7Tz
My ★★★★½ review of A Better Tomorrow III: Love and Death in Saigon (1989) on @letterboxd.social 📽️: boxd.it/aHixXj
A ★★★★½ review of A Better Tomorrow III: Love and Death in Saigon (1989)
Distills the sweep and thesis of Tsui's subsequent Once Upon a Time in China series into a single work, tracing the tides of imperialism and flows of capital across the south east Asian metropoles bei...
boxd.it
August 12, 2025 at 3:59 PM
My ★★★★½ review of A Better Tomorrow III: Love and Death in Saigon (1989) on @letterboxd.social 📽️: boxd.it/aHixXj
Identification of a Woman (1982, Michelangelo Antonioni) /
The Sacrifice (1986, Andrei Tarkovsky) /
The World (2004, Jia Zhangke)
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The Sacrifice (1986, Andrei Tarkovsky) /
The World (2004, Jia Zhangke)
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August 9, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Identification of a Woman (1982, Michelangelo Antonioni) /
The Sacrifice (1986, Andrei Tarkovsky) /
The World (2004, Jia Zhangke)
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The Sacrifice (1986, Andrei Tarkovsky) /
The World (2004, Jia Zhangke)
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My ★★★★★ review of L'Eclisse (1962) on @letterboxd.social 📽️: boxd.it/aFgowL
A ★★★★★ review of L'Eclisse (1962)
On tracing the tear made through modern and human life post-Bretton Woods, as financial capital took hold. All that is solid remains but finds its value become specious. Antonioni is clear in having h...
boxd.it
August 9, 2025 at 9:48 PM
My ★★★★★ review of L'Eclisse (1962) on @letterboxd.social 📽️: boxd.it/aFgowL
Delighted to have the chance to review MAGELLAN, Lav Diaz's latest masterpiece, for In Review Online's #Cannes2025 coverage. 📽️ Find it here: inreviewonline.com/2025/05/26/m...
Magellan — Lav Diaz [Cannes '25 Review] | In Review Online
A new film review of Magellan, directed by Lav Diaz, for film review site In Review Online's Cannes 2025 festival coverage.
inreviewonline.com
May 26, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Delighted to have the chance to review MAGELLAN, Lav Diaz's latest masterpiece, for In Review Online's #Cannes2025 coverage. 📽️ Find it here: inreviewonline.com/2025/05/26/m...
Was delighted to get the opportunity to interview Jia Zhangke about CAUGHT BY THE TIDES for InRO.
Topics included how he conceptualises time, the ways this has evolved across his recent features and the impact of Cubism, TikTok and RedNote on the making of his latest masterpiece. 📽️ Read it here:
Topics included how he conceptualises time, the ways this has evolved across his recent features and the impact of Cubism, TikTok and RedNote on the making of his latest masterpiece. 📽️ Read it here:
May 10, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Was delighted to get the opportunity to interview Jia Zhangke about CAUGHT BY THE TIDES for InRO.
Topics included how he conceptualises time, the ways this has evolved across his recent features and the impact of Cubism, TikTok and RedNote on the making of his latest masterpiece. 📽️ Read it here:
Topics included how he conceptualises time, the ways this has evolved across his recent features and the impact of Cubism, TikTok and RedNote on the making of his latest masterpiece. 📽️ Read it here:
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My ★★★★ review of Sinners (2025) on @letterboxd.social: boxd.it/9rVOg3
A ★★★★ review of Sinners (2025)
The beat, rhythm, rhyme, chime of rhizomatic ancestrality as the positive affirmation of new life taken from the view of eternity, and its persistence in, through, across time – forward and back – in ...
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April 19, 2025 at 12:40 AM
My ★★★★ review of Sinners (2025) on @letterboxd.social: boxd.it/9rVOg3
Michael B. Jordan, Wunmi Mosaku and Ludwig Göransson in the house for SINNERS in London at the BFI IMAX
April 18, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Michael B. Jordan, Wunmi Mosaku and Ludwig Göransson in the house for SINNERS in London at the BFI IMAX
My ★★★★½ review of Asako I & II (2018) on @letterboxd.social: boxd.it/9rvdeH
A ★★★★½ review of Asako I & II (2018)
On filthy yet beautiful changes in life. One never walks through the same river twice.
boxd.it
April 18, 2025 at 5:08 PM
My ★★★★½ review of Asako I & II (2018) on @letterboxd.social: boxd.it/9rvdeH
My ★★★★½ review of Wuthering Heights (1985) on @letterboxd.social: boxd.it/9oT7V7
A ★★★★½ review of Wuthering Heights (1985)
Seems fundamental to this that it be something other: language, character, landscape, even weather. The print, in contrast to the extant and more readily DVD copy, gives not a "wuthered" environment, ...
boxd.it
April 18, 2025 at 5:07 PM
My ★★★★½ review of Wuthering Heights (1985) on @letterboxd.social: boxd.it/9oT7V7
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New ep—PELHAMS 1, 2, 3! Yes we watched one of the most beloved thrillers of the 70’s, plus two other movies that coincidentally have the same title! That IS so terrific! #thetakingofpelham123
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
April 16, 2025 at 11:25 PM
New ep—PELHAMS 1, 2, 3! Yes we watched one of the most beloved thrillers of the 70’s, plus two other movies that coincidentally have the same title! That IS so terrific! #thetakingofpelham123
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...