Author: Matt Paprocki
Matt Paprocki has critiqued home media and video games for 20 years across outlets like Washington Post, Variety, Rolling Stone, Forbes, IGN, Playboy, Polygon, Ars, and others. His current passion project is the technically minded
DoBlu.com. You can follow Matt's body of work via his personal
WordPress blog, and follow him on Twitter
@Matt_Paprocki.
Highlander brought forth the music video era of filmmaking, and mostly for worse.
Romance and pollution fill Dragons Forever's simple story between a mountain of epic brawls.
While technologically and politically of its era, WarGames holds relevancy now for its nuclear fears and high school antics.
Aimless like its main characters, Wayne's World drifts through existence with barely any plot and that's the point.
Safe and fluffy, Ticket to Paradise hits every predictable cliche on its way through rom com norms.
A touch of kiddie horror feels right in Paranorman as the story deals in death, loss, and being yourself.
Coraline approaches a difficult topic for kids with a colorful, imaginative world that's almost a miracle in its execution.
A fervent, hyper-exaggerated slant against religious fanaticism, Carrie is able to balance that with a fatalist worldview.
Eccentric, bizarre, but sure-handed in its comic surrealism, Pulp Fiction never offers a moment of reprieve.
A fable concerning gold, mythical roads, and kung fu, Kid with the Golden Arm is a relentless fight flick too.
Jerry and Marge Go Large pours on endless charms and thrives, but tries too hard to build conflict.
Opening Night Movies about movies are not abnormal. Movies about the creative person’s mindset are unusual though. 5-25-77 smartly focuses there. It’s hard to pin down another film that …