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...

Where did the water-bourne sociopath go? It feels like that villainous archetype never really escaped its 80s and 90s heyday, and the likes of Dead Calm and The River Wild (not that the female in peril genre hasn’t continued to wend and wind its way through slashers and thrillers everywhere else since). So it feels like a jet of fresh water for Netflix to bring the concept pounding onto the streamer with this easy-to-watch thriller...

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...

Before Cold Storage slunk onto cinema screens in the awkward mid-award season, its trailer had already bamboozled audiences. In the promos, B-movie stylings mashed with star faces as gore-soaked horror was laced with quips. Hazmat suits stalked a dangerous infection a half-decade after COVID-19, while some self-storage workers watched a deer wander into a lift. It was a little hard to pin down, and not by accident; it’s very much Cold Storage’s raison d’être...

The hugely successful Exhibition on Screen returns, with a timely chance to correct an injustice. Released in 2020, the series’ Frida Kahlo film was overwhelmed, like so many things, by the COVID-19 pandemic. Good thing, then, that an exhibition celebrating Kahlo’s legacy is the chance for a special-edition re-release.
The new exhibition, shared between Houston’s Museum of Fine Arts and London’s Tate Modern, and covered in the final 10 minutes of this film, is subtitled The Making of an Icon....

This year marks the 60th anniversary of the release of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, a sound and vision behemoth of popular culture. The climax to Sergio Leone’s Dollars trilogy, though, is very much that: a culmination of the themes and tones laid down in the two preceding films, A Fistful of Dollars (1964) and For a Few Dollars More (1965).
Arrow’s new box set collects, to the consternation of some fans, the three films that were released individually last year...

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...

Having picked up a meter-full of horror awards on release in 2024, Self Driver manoeuvres onto digital to show everyone what all the fuss was about. It’s easy to see why this Canadian thriller went down well on the genre festival circuit. In essence, it’s a simple concept, riding on contemporary tech-anxiety, with one eye constantly on satire, and filmed in a super lean way that turns its low-fi approach into a strength..

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...

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...

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...

Jonny Campbell has carved out an impressive career as a television director, and his background helming notable episodes of series like Westworld, Doctor Who, and Dracula that undoubtedly helped bring Cold Storage to the screen.
After all, it’s a story that gleefully crosses genres, which is why David Koepp—one of Hollywood’s most successful screenwriters, with Jurassic Park (1993), Mission: Impossible (1996) and Spider-Man (2002), and more on his CV...