Matthew Pennell

Cambridge, UK

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Pretty in Pink 1986

★★★★ Rewatched by Matthew Pennell 14 Apr 2020

Jon Cryer deserved a better movie career.
2036 Origin Unknown 2018

★½ Watched by Matthew Pennell 23 Feb 2020

While the production quality is generally high, and the filmmakers made some smart decisions in terms of sets and cast to keep the budget low (it's reminiscent of movies like Cube and Exam, using what is effectively a single set), the script is painfully lacking in exposition or explanation. Katee Sackhoff does her best with some terrible dialogue, but ultimately the final twenty minutes - a combination of ideas ripped-off from Asimov and visuals from Kubrick's 2001 A Space Odyssey - doesn't answer any of the questions it needs to.

The Mummy 2017

½ Watched by Matthew Pennell 21 Jun 2019

I could have written a better script than this.
Star Wars: The Last Jedi 2017

★★ Watched by Matthew Pennell 22 Jul 2018

When the main source of dramatic tension for a sizeable chunk of time is, "can this ship keep on flying very slowly away from the other ship", your movie might have problems.