Matt Taylor

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Matt Taylor is the TV editor at The Pop Break, along with being one of the site's awards show experts. When he's not at the nearest movie theater, he can be found bingeing the latest Netflix series, listening to synth pop, or updating his Oscar predictions. A Rutgers grad, he also works in academic publishing. Follow him on Twitter @MattNotMatthew1.

Before I Wake: A Bad Horror Film That Should’ve Stayed on the Shelf

Matt Taylor - January 8, 2018

It’s brave of writer/director Mike Flanagan to make sleep such a central part of Before I Wake’s story, as it practically begs critics to...

9-1-1: Ryan Murphy Helps His Friends Get An Easy Paycheck

Matt Taylor - January 4, 2018

Ryan Murphy is the closest thing we have to television royalty. Just about everything he touches turns to gold, and he’s managed to attract...

Phantom Thread: Paul Thomas Anderson Helms an Unusual (And Amazing)Romance

Matt Taylor - January 2, 2018

As far as American directors go, Paul Thomas Anderson is in a league of his own. No director, save for Quentin Tarantino and Wes...

Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle: A Safe, Solid Time at the Movies

Matt Taylor - December 23, 2017

Nostalgia for the 1990s is all fun and games until something that is actually bad from that era is remembered as a classic. 1995’s...

Search Party Season 2 Finale: A Twisty, Tone-Deaf Finale

Matt Taylor - December 18, 2017

It’s been a hectic five weeks for Search Party fans, and the series’ two-part season finale proved to be just as stress inducing as...

Mudbound: A Good Ole Southern Melodrama

Matt Taylor - December 16, 2017

Dee Rees’ Mudbound, the latest film festival acquisition to be dropped on Netflix with minimum promotion, is a melodrama through and through. All the...

Search Party Episodes 7 & 8: A Misfire & Season 2’s Darkest, Bundled Together

Matt Taylor - December 11, 2017

TBS doesn’t seem to know the best way to distribute Search Party. Last year, they made the unusual decision to make the series binge-able...

Search Party Episodes 5 & 6: Things Get Dark, But Stay Funny

Matt Taylor - December 4, 2017

Search Party has always been a dark show, but its fifth and sixth episodes, titled “Paranoia” and “Obsession,” brought things to a whole different...

Call Me By Your Name: A Significant, Seductive Summer Romance

Matt Taylor - November 28, 2017

You won’t find any gay slurs, discrimination, or obvious acts of homophobia in Call Me By Your Name – a fact that immediately separates...

Search Party, ‘Paralysis’ & ‘Suspicion’: Chantal Brings Trouble & Big Laughs

Matt Taylor - November 27, 2017

Adding a new character to a series is always a bit of a gamble. Will they mesh with the existing universe of characters, or...

Thelma: An Unpredictable Genre Mash-Up

Matt Taylor - November 23, 2017

Thelma is a story of girl-meets-girl. The titular character is the daughter of Christian fundamentalists living in the mountains of Norway who, finally, gets...