Matt Goddard

No Other Choice starts with a family barbecue. Two parents, two children, two dogs, under falling blossoms. Few viewers will expect that perfect scene to tell the whole story, but even if they're braced for the sublime to turn ridiculous as the seasons change, even fewer will anticipate where this dark comedy thriller heads. A sprawling triumph of filmmaking, it's likely to hit you in successive tiny hits: satire by a hundred paper cutsa...

Hammer Studios carved out a special place in cinematic horror with its gothic adaptations of classic stories. The Curse of Frankenstein established Hammer's horror brand and focused on the creator rather than the monster. Hammer's revival in the early 21st century reminded everyone of its name in classic and new opportunities in horror and other genres.
Hammer is a legendary British production company and has carved out a special place in cinematic horror...

But the leg came back...

The euphemism of a ‘mischievous time’ appears at the beginning and near the end of The Secret Agent. As the eye-catching symbol of a yellow VW Beetle recurs throughout, it’s a constant reminder that this leisurely crime drama, packed with its deceptively sneaky. It’s an incendiary and tour-de-force piece of filmmaking from writer-director Kleber Mendonça Filho.

With Brazil in the grip of military dictatorship in 1977, researcher Armando Solimões (Wagner Moura) takes...

It's been a long time coming, but the world finally has its Toxic Avenger back—surely just the tonic comic book movies need.
Macon Blair steers Legendary Entertainment's attempt to bring Troma's superpowered poster boy screaming and ripping into the 21st century, along with an impressive cast and an ‘unrated' stamp. But while the noxious results will get whoops in the cinemas, it‘s hard to miss the smoking remains of a wasted opportunity...

It is down to Ryan Gosling’s amnesiac fish out of water (AKA human out of earth) to kick off this year’s post-Awards blockbuster season. The masterminds behind it are symbiotic-film-wonders Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, who didn’t have too much fun the last time they filmed a space opera in the UK (uncredited on 2018’s Solo: A Star Wars Story). But nearly a decade later, they’ve found a winning formula with Drew Goddard’s humour-packed adaptation...

Top 10 Best 90's Horror Films - written by Matt Goddard for wegotthiscovered.com

Maggie Gyllenhaal’s confident love letter to cinema and primal, feminist scream is a theatrical tour de force. That means it demands to be seen on the biggest and loudest screen possible—it’s the only hope of picking up everything going on because, wow, there’s a lot

The spirit of Mary Shelley (Jessie Buckley), with unfinished business, finds a vessel in Ida, a moll in mid-1930s Chicago (also Jessie Buckley). When possessed, Ida shouting off her mouth in a club leaves her lying dead...

Third time’s a romance?
Taking on Emily Brontë’s gothic romance as a third directorial effort is a big ask. It’s not only the writer’s only novel, but a much-adapted tale that’s been bothering film awards for almost a century, and one so bursting with themes and dynasty, it’s frequently chopped in half on the big screen. Fortunately, Emerald Fennell isn’t short of vision. Her first adaptation (on film, she was, of course, the showrunner of Killing Eve’s second season) is easy to pick holes...

In case you’re unaware, the Wachowskis are a sibling pair of writers, producers, and directors who made a name for themselves by casually changing the face of Hollywood.

They may be best known for the game-changing spectacle that is The Matrix, but their filmmaking has ever darker and leaner roots. Although they weren’t fans of the final film, they wrote the Sylvester Stallone-starring Assassins in the mid-1990s. Their efforts to remove their names from the credits may have failed, but they p...

The Super Mario Galaxy Movie power jumped onto the screen in 2023, defying all expectations. Illumination’s stunning animation and light-touch approach to that most cursed of properties, video game adaptations, overcame the pre-buzz doubts about Mario’s appearance to wall-jump to well over $1.3 billion at the global box office. It was a fun, bright and chock-full of so many cameos and little lore details, anyone familiar with Nintendo’s mascot may have...

Our picks for the top 13 best post-apocalyptic movies of all time written by Matt Goddard

April is a harrowing and visceral experience, but one that confidently keeps its audience at a distance. Graphic and uncompromising scenes sit alongside stunningly filmed shots of nature, leaving viewers unable to look away, but with plenty of room to think.
Writer and director Dea Kulumbegashvili established herself as voice in contemporary social cinema with 2020's Beginning. April is the follow-up that cements Kulumbegashvili's reputation with a study of an individual in extremis...

There’s a moment about halfway through How To Make A Killing where Margaret Qualley’s Julia laments that she thought Glenn Powell’s Becket Redfellow would be more fun. You may well think the same. After all, this dark comedy draws inspiration from the Ealing comedy, Kind Hearts and Coronets, with Becket cast as the unfortunate missing sheep of a wealthy family...

It is a bit of a mystery that Joe Dante’s Innerspace never made the same mark on popular culture as some of the director’s other 1980s movies. Pre-production is ramping up on a second sequel to 1984’s Gremlins after years of speculation, and The ‘Burbs is enjoying a new life as a series following in the footsteps of Dante’s 1989 feature… But if anything, 1987’s Innerspace’s reputation has shrunk since its heyday on VHS cassette.

There's a new double act in mystery town
Rian Johnson’s detective franchise rolls into a trilogy with its strongest instalment yet. After the indulgence of the sprawling second movie, Wake Up Dead Man doesn’t quite recapture the magical double act of Daniel Craig and Ana de Armas that sold so much of the first film, but it wisely pulls things back to a corrupted parish riddled with a broad dysfunctional family, superstitions and an impossible puzzle...