Mattie Lucas

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Film critic at From the Front Row, staff writer for In Review Online. Member - SEFCA, NCFCA, GALECA, OFCS.

Favorite films

  • The Passion of Joan of Arc
  • Ménilmontant
  • The Wizard of Oz
  • Gosford Park

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  • Again Again

    ★★★★

  • Scream 7

    ★★

  • Moulin Rouge!

    ★★★★★

  • What Women Want

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Again Again
★★★★ Liked Watched

In a time of unprecedented attacks on the transgender community from the halls of power worldwide, there’s something oddly comforting about the flourishing of underground queer art. Political pressure has certainly caused corporate owned studios to be shy about even the modicum of progress made when it comes to trans people in film out of fear of being perceived as “woke.” Thankfully, that hasn’t stopped trans people from telling our own stories. Queer art has always thrived underground, in the…

Scream 7
★★ Watched

After the very public firing of Melissa Barrera for speaking out against Israel’s genocide of Palestinians, Jenna Ortega’s departure from the series in solidarity, and the resignation of director Christopher Landon, the Scream franchise found itself in a lurch. Barrera and Ortega’s story had been the focus of Scream 5 and 6 and had represented something of a passing of the torch. Spyglass Entertainment’s craven dismissal of Barrera for her Palestinian solidarity essentially torched the franchise, forcing them to completely…

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I Saw the TV Glow
★★★★★ Liked Watched

Jane Schoenbrun's I SAW THE TV GLOW is ostensibly a film about the bonds created by the communal act of watching favorite TV shows. These are the kinds of deeply personal cult hits that feel as though they're made just for you; like a secret shared amongst friends that not only defines you but gives you an identity as a member of an exclusive club in which minutiae and trivia become a kind of language only the initiated can understand.…

Manhatta
★★★★½ Watched

Two photographers, Charles Sheeler and Paul Strand, set out to make a document of Manhattan in 1920, set to the poem "Manhatta" by Walt Whitman. The result is one of the earliest surviving works of American avant-garde cinema. And while it doesn't really experiment or push the boundaries of the medium beyond early silent documentaries the way later films would, it captures the city in an indelible way. It's fascinating from a historical perspective watching the Cunard liner, Aquitania, docking…