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If you love movies, then you’ve come to the right place!
Writing about film, and discussing it with friends, has been a lifelong passion of mine. When the lights go down in a theater, and a larger-than-life image flickers before me on the screen, I can’t simply sit back and “watch” it. I love to analyze the filmmaking technique, and then argue with friends afterward about whether it worked or not. Long before I landed my first film critic gig, I always reviewed each new film I saw. Not because of an assignment or a deadline, but because I simply loved doing it.
Feel free to peruse through my reviews from 2005 to the present, and leave a comment if you’d like to start a discussion (I could discuss many of these films all day).
Thanks for stopping by, and enjoy!
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ABOUT ME...
Matthew Fagerholm is a professional freelance writer, film enthusiast and critic whose work has spanned various mediums. He was the Assistant A&E Editor for The Columbia Chronicle at Columbia College in Chicago from Fall 2006 to Spring 2008. There he wrote weekly film reviews and interviewed some of the industry’s biggest names. He also hosted film discussions on Columbia’s radio station WCRX, presented one of his analytical papers at Notre Dame’s Midwest Undergraduate Film Conference, won two journalism awards for his work at The Chronicle, and studied the current state of world cinema at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival. He made a series of student films while at Columbia, and graduated in Spring 2008 with a Bachelor of Arts in Film & Video. He is currently a freelance writer in Chicago.
Photos courtesy of IFC films, Pixar Animation Studios & Fox Searchlight Pictures
