Matt Wedge
@thewedgeserpent.bsky.social
(He/him) Film writer type, bylines at Daily Grindhouse, Neon Splatter, and others; vegetarian, expert on the films of Larry Cohen, cat herder, library lifer, cancer survivor, Chicagoan living in the south. All opinions mine.
I'm too lazy to find the Gif of the nazi turning to dust from INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE, but you get the drift.
November 27, 2025 at 4:45 AM
I'm too lazy to find the Gif of the nazi turning to dust from INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE, but you get the drift.
Six weeks ago they thought their biggest problem were the kids all looking like thirty-year-olds. Ha ha!
November 26, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Six weeks ago they thought their biggest problem were the kids all looking like thirty-year-olds. Ha ha!
People really want to hate Tarantino (admittedly, he makes it pretty easy), but I learned long ago to just tune him out when he goes on his bib pronouncements. He's an often clueless loudmouth who makes good movies. Call it the Paul Schrader syndrome.
November 26, 2025 at 10:34 PM
People really want to hate Tarantino (admittedly, he makes it pretty easy), but I learned long ago to just tune him out when he goes on his bib pronouncements. He's an often clueless loudmouth who makes good movies. Call it the Paul Schrader syndrome.
It was funny to me to see so many people up in arms about this trying to point out that RESERVOIR DOGS is a ripoff of CITY ON FIRE. Having just watched CITY ON FIRE for the first time, they're very different movies that share one very similar scene, but even those scenes go in different directions.
November 26, 2025 at 10:32 PM
It was funny to me to see so many people up in arms about this trying to point out that RESERVOIR DOGS is a ripoff of CITY ON FIRE. Having just watched CITY ON FIRE for the first time, they're very different movies that share one very similar scene, but even those scenes go in different directions.
It's so hard to know with interviews. I hate how much of landing a job just seems to come down to luck.
November 26, 2025 at 4:58 PM
It's so hard to know with interviews. I hate how much of landing a job just seems to come down to luck.
That's a good comparison.
November 26, 2025 at 3:37 PM
That's a good comparison.
Yeah, I was surprised to see the Troma opening logo/animation before this one.
November 26, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Yeah, I was surprised to see the Troma opening logo/animation before this one.
Which is hilarious because even though his movies played theaters, they look and feel like the straight to VHS action films of the early '90s, just with much bigger explosions and lots of helicopters.
November 26, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Which is hilarious because even though his movies played theaters, they look and feel like the straight to VHS action films of the early '90s, just with much bigger explosions and lots of helicopters.
One interview I found with him after he quit, he talked about not being able to compete with the studios any longer because they were paying bigger money to people like Peter Weller, Michael Ironside, etc. who he had cast in the past and that he didn't want his movies going straight to video.
November 26, 2025 at 3:33 PM
One interview I found with him after he quit, he talked about not being able to compete with the studios any longer because they were paying bigger money to people like Peter Weller, Michael Ironside, etc. who he had cast in the past and that he didn't want his movies going straight to video.
I'm so sorry, man.
November 26, 2025 at 3:28 PM
I'm so sorry, man.
William Lustig, and others. Then he disappeared in the mid-'90s. I did some shallow digging around and he apparently just decided to quit filmmaking and went into finance. But dude was all over the place for a while and clearly great at raising budgets. Seems a shame he's not still a producer. 3/3
November 26, 2025 at 3:27 PM
William Lustig, and others. Then he disappeared in the mid-'90s. I did some shallow digging around and he apparently just decided to quit filmmaking and went into finance. But dude was all over the place for a while and clearly great at raising budgets. Seems a shame he's not still a producer. 3/3
which brings me to a question I've had before: Who the hell was James Glickenhaus? Man made like ten indie movies with big action scenes that seemed like amateur productions despite the clear money that went into them. He even had a distribution company, releasing films by Frank Henenlotter,...2/?
November 26, 2025 at 3:24 PM
which brings me to a question I've had before: Who the hell was James Glickenhaus? Man made like ten indie movies with big action scenes that seemed like amateur productions despite the clear money that went into them. He even had a distribution company, releasing films by Frank Henenlotter,...2/?