Articles by Matthew Ritchie

Only Yesterday

Directed by Isao Takahata

PUBLISHED Feb 26, 2016

In 1991, Studio Ghibli released future Academy Award nominee Isao Takahata's Only Yesterday, a wistful coming of age drama based on the man...

Triple 9

Directed by John Hillcoat

PUBLISHED Feb 26, 2016

It's unusual for a casting director to deserve more kudos than the film's director, but such is the case with Australian filmmaker John Hil...

Animal Collective Get Weird Together on 'Painting With'

PUBLISHED Feb 19, 2016

Ever since Animal Collective's beginning in the early 2000s, the Baltimore-born, New York-bred group have always seemed more like an experi...

Race

Directed by Stephen Hopkins

PUBLISHED Feb 19, 2016

More often than not, movies about running are vehicles to talk about some form of persecution (think last year's McFarland USA, about an im...

Animal Collective

Painting With

PUBLISHED Feb 17, 2016

Reportedly inspired by the Ramones, early Beatles recordings, Cubism, Dadaism, and (most bizarre of all) dinosaurs, Painting With finds Mar...

Deadpool

Directed by Tim Miller

PUBLISHED Feb 12, 2016

Just when you thought Ryan Reynolds' career was down for the count, he returns to the silver screen as the titular masked vigilante in Dead...

How to Be Single

Directed by Christian Ditter

PUBLISHED Feb 12, 2016

Is Dakota Johnson slowly becoming the face of bad Valentine's Day movies for singles? Because, as if last year's Razzie-nominated Fifty Sha...

Portrait of a Serial Monogamist

Christina Zeidler and John Mitchell

PUBLISHED Feb 11, 2016

In Portrait of a Serial Monogamist, indie directors Christina Zeidler and John Mitchell's whip-smart, Toronto-based romantic comedy, Canadi...