Stories By Matthew Newlin

Movies & TV
Community Recap: ‘History 101’ (Season 4, Episode 1)
January 29, 2026“Troy and Abed back from summer!” Actually, it’s Community back from an unnervingly long break between...

Movies & TV
Community Recap: ‘Paranormal Parentage’ (Season 4, Episode 2)
January 27, 2026Previous episodes like “Epidemiology” and “Horror Fiction in Seven Spooky Steps” have lampooned genre films and...

Movies
Movie Review: Oz the Great and Powerful
January 19, 2026But, where the 1939 movie was an unbelievably forward-thinking work of art that inspired filmmakers for...

Movies
SXSW Film Festival Day 1: Evil Dead’s a Winner
January 17, 2026The real treat of the night was director Fede Alvarez' remake of the classic B horror...

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SXSW Film Festival Day 2: It’s Whedon’s World
January 17, 2026If South By Southwest has taught us anything, it's that this is Joss Whedon's world and...

Movies
SXSW Film Festival Day 3: Is The MPAA All Bad?
January 16, 2026I was able to attend my first panel discussion on my third day at SXSW. Cleverly...

Movies
Early Review: Don Jon
January 15, 2026Don Jon is Jon Martello (Gordon-Levitt), a New Jersey meathead who only cares about a few...

Movies
SXSW Film Festival Day 5: Guns, Ghosts and Psychos
January 15, 2026As a sign of how important SXSW has become across a variety of media, A&E premiered...

Movies & TV
Community Recap: ‘Advanced Documentary Filmmaking’ (Season 4, Episode 6)
January 14, 2026After a mediocre season (to put it nicely) so far, this week’s episode of Community was...

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Community Recap: ‘Economics of Marine Biology’ (Season 4, Episode 7)
January 13, 2026The sliver of optimism that built inside me after last week’s episode of Community has shriveled...














