Matthew Monagle
School
Columbia University
Expertise
Tabletop Games, Aliens, Folk Horror
- As a feature writer, Matthew has interviewed filmmakers such as Edgar Wright, Wes Ball, Jeremy Saulnier, David Prior, and the Safdie brothers.
- Matthew has also served as a jury member for the Austin Asian American Film Festival and the Brooklyn Horror Film Festival.
- To this day, Matthew is still the only person he knows with a tattoo based on Antonio Bird's 1999 horror cannibal western Ravenous.
Experience
Matthew's career as a film journalist began in middle school, when a community newspaper in Southeast Alaska published his review of The Mothman Prophecies. Since then, Matthew has focused his writing on his love of horror films and tabletop games. His work in the Austin arts community can be found in publications like Eater Austin and the Austin Chronicle, and his list of recent publications includes Dicebreaker, Dread Central, Ebert Voices, Film School Rejects, The Playlist, and more. When not writing about horror and tabletop, Matthew works full-time as a marketing director for a financial services cooperative.
Education
Matthew has an MA in Film Studies from Columbia University.
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Stories By Matthew Monagle
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The current crop of HBO Max Originals offer incredible genre pleasures for action, horror, and science fiction fans. Here's how it happened.
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In our Gamemaster director interview, filmmaker Charles Mruz tells us the story behind his very entertaining documentary about the board game industry.
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In our Osgood Perkins interview, the director of Gretel & Hansel talks about his dark reinvention of the classic fairy tale and more.
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Uncut Gems and Punch-Drunk Love share a star in Adam Sandler, but they end up being unlikely companion pieces for other reasons.
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Let's take a look back at the original The Shining reviews for an example of contemporary film critics tearing apart a future masterpiece.
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In our Zombieland Double Tap interview, we sit down with director Ruben Fleischer and star Jesse Eisenberg to talk about the sequel's long journey.
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In our Angel Has Fallen director interview, Ric Roman Waugh talks about how he made the third entry in the franchise his own.
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The making of The Peanut Butter Falcon combined streetwise filmmaking with attracting big stars to work alongside newcomers. Here's how they pulled it off.
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In our Jaws board game review, we praise this uniquely structured game for how well it captures the tone of the original film.
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Remember how the late '90s were obsessed with action movies set on water? We do, too. So let's talk about jet ski chases, watery shootouts, and Christian Slater's brush with movie stardom.
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In the drought between the original trilogy and the prequels, a Star Wars card game helped nurture a fandom that didn't have new movies.
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There have been four Starship Troopers movies, with a fifth one arriving next week...and each film has been completely different than the others.
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In the latest edition of The Unpopular Opinion, we rise in defense of Prometheus, Ridley Scott's flawed, fascinating Alien prequel.