Matt Greene

An example: Jay Kelly is not a good film, but it did, extremely unexpectedly, make me wonder what Noah Baumbach would do with The Unconsoled.

There is good art and bad art, plenty of both. I never tire of good art but I'll always have a special place in my heart for the rare third kind: bad art that is mostly, or even entirely, forgivable.

(Men and women of the jury, I contend, and aim to show beyond the bounds of reasonable doubt, that, given the circumstances, my client had no choice but to stan.)

Where do the Helen of Nowhere stans go to hang out?

Having an editor in your Google doc is as close as you can get to being Jim Carrey in Eternal Sunshine, running through your memories, trying to outrun the erasers.

I haven't read them since I was thirteen but I consider them some of the most formative and enjoyable reading experiences of my life. RIP to Rob Grant. I'm honestly not sure I'd be a reader without you.

I have the appearance of a double-crown brought on by a childhood bout of trichotillomania; I used to pull my hair out when I was too engrossed in what I was reading. Thankfully, it began, and ended, with the Red Dwarf novels by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor (1/2)

Something no-one tells you until you have kids is that four out of five 8-year-old girls are Olympic level gymnasts.

It's very different parenting a three-year-old when they've got an older sibling.

At Sainsbury's
Me: Shall I beep it or do you want to?
Him (adorably) I'll do it because you're a fucking idiot.

I met Ashley first week of uni. We'd both turned up interested in writing about film for the union paper. Two minutes talking and I knew I was out of my depth: the man knew *everything*. So great to see this getting so much love. He's a brilliant writer.

Lovely detail spotted on a rewatch of Sentimental Value. The booth that they sit in when he first offers her the script has a plaque on the back commemorating Sten Egil Dahl, the fictional novelist the two protagonists are obsessed by in JT's first film, Reprise.

Horrible news for the haters, great news for the fan[base]

Gargling mouthwash on my way out the door to the dentist. Shades of revising for GCSE History by reading the order of Tudor kings off my ruler.

Oh absolutely. And like a dog, I often find it baffling that only other dogs can hear it.

Out August 3rd. Succession tells the story of Everton legend Colin Harvey's time as manager of Everton, following the most successful period in the club's history, at a time of great change in English football. Early pre-sale Waterstones promotion with 25% discount coming next week.
#everton

I've had fascinating discussions of the film with Jewish friends and non-Jewish friends but the one conversation that really took me aback was with the person who told me, apropos Rockwell's antisemitism, that they thought *he* was Jewish. (Sometimes you just gotta say goys will be goys)

Ultimate fantasy? Probably preparing the same unmodified meal for my whole family without immediate recrimination

"You can't buy thanks" is simultaneously the most insightful, revealing and infuriating thing the nine-year-old has ever said.

A very happy Valentine's day to those of you, like me, who like to present your thrift and lack of sentiment as ideological opposition

A lot of our political leaders seem to have misinterpreted the phrase "beneath contempt" as being roughly synonymous with "under the radar"

Yes! I don't always notice this stuff but the blocking in that scene is so interesting. The way he eclipses her in the frame and we only get to see her eyes as she reacts. The best part of a great performance

Have seen Old Joy?

Saw it in the cinema and halfway through a rewatch. Really excellent. Owes a debt to Kelly Reichardt, who we could all with owing a bigger debt too

Now, Good One: there is an accomplished debut film.

Matt Greene’s dystopian novel is about memory loss Personal and political views inspired The Definitions, a dark but humorous novel

My oldest friend here with an absolutely accurate hatchet job www.jewishnews.co.uk/matt-greenes...

Injury? Experience? There's no adjective more context-dependent than "life-changing"

If you haven't seen it, it's on Mubi. If you have, the cafe scene, oh man, the cafe scene...

Finished my rewatch of Oslo, 31st August, I think my fifth viewing. It really is a miracle of a film. I love Worst Person in the World and Sentimental Value but I don't think he's ever surpassed this. Do you know how mad it is to remake The Fire Within and somehow completely eclipse it?

The good thing about working in the arts in 2026 is you said goodbye to your dignity at least a decade ago, so here I am outright asking you to consider voting for THE DEFINITIONS if you liked it and are in a position to.

Not that I have a type but these are two of my favourite films of the past two decades