Matt Brennan graduated from USC in 2009 with a BA in film studies and history. He files a weekly film criticism column, "Now and Then," for Thompson on Hollywood!, an Indiewire blog, and tweets about movies @thefilmgoer. His writing has also appeared in L.A. Weekly and Bright Lights. He lives in New Orleans. 
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed . . . — from Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Ozymandias”
“Your body is a microcosm of all existence.” — Death: A Love Story
Producers & Studios · Writers & Critics
“You want answers?” “I want the truth!” “You can’t handle the truth!” — A Few Good Men (1992), screenplay by Aaron Sorkin
“In Mad Men, as in modern American politics, the past is a pre-lapsarian paradise to which it is imperative to return, and the fantasy is of those exiled from history itself.”
“There remain only intimations of squalor and suffering, of rough beasts stumbling across the landscape without any stability or security in sight.”
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I’m not the one you want babe / I’ll only let you down.”
Historical & Epic · Writers & Critics
“The king-times are fast finishing. There will be blood shed like water, and tears like mist. But the peoples will conquer in the end. I shall not live to see it, but I foresee it.”
“What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow / Out of this stony rubbish?” The leader of a pro-immigrant political group and sometime terrorist organization called The Fishes, Julian[…]
