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Meet the Flixist Team >>   Matthew Razak
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Matthew Razak is the Editor-in-Chief here at Flixist meaning he get to take credit for all this awesome even though its really the rest of the amazing staff that gets it done. He started as a community member back in the early days of Destructoid and bugged his way into writing for the site while being the Managing Editor over at That VideoGame Blog. He was also writing as a film critic for a local newspaper in the DC area and for Examiner.com. Finally after seven years of thinking silently to himself why the Modern Method network doesn't have a movie site he told Niero that we should start one. At the same time Fronz had been telling him to start a movie site too. The two of them teamed up with Niero's go ahead and now we have Flixist.

Matthew is totally open to any movie of any genre, but his wheelhouse is horror, action and James Bond. Doesn't sound too respectable but he's also got a fancy film degree from Vassar College and he's a member of the Washington Area Film Critics Society so that makes him semi-official in some capacity. He just really like movies and hopes that's enough to let you trust his opinion on them slightly.

He get asked these questions a lot when he tells people he writes for a movie blog, so:

Favorite movie: Evil Dead 2

Favorite franchise: Bond

OK, Favorite Bond movie: From Russia With Love

Movie You Should See Right Now: Midnight in Paris

Movies You Should See You Haven't: 16 Blocks, Lucky Number Slevin, Superman Returns (but watch it as an homage to the first two films and not as a movie, it's genius that way), Singing in the Rain (I know you haven't seen it), Kiss Kiss Bang Bang.

If you want to know the movies you have to see to get Flixist head here.
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L.A. writers needed, come write for Flixist

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Two new Smurfs 2 posters have smurfs in them

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Two new Smurfs 2 posters have smurfs in them photo

Trailer: The Wolverine

I get less and less excited about The Wolverine as we get closer to release. It was already the summer superhero film I was least looking forward to, but the trailers just aren't exciting me. This new one digs a bitter ...   more

Trailer: The Wolverine photo

Dan Aykroyed talks Ghostbusters 3 plot

The third installment of Ghostbusters has been bouncing around forever, but it is still a thing that may happen. We've already heard that the films will focus on a younger generation of Ghostbusters, with the old guys pa...   more

Dan Aykroyed talks Ghostbusters 3 plot photo

Jennifer Lawrence once again close to naked as Mystique

One of our most popular posts here at Flixist is an old video of Jennifer Lawerence as Mystique in X:Men: First Class. It's because she's damn near naked. The Internet obviously likes seeing her covered in blue scales, and ne...   more


Christopher Nolan offered the next Bond film

A while back Christopher Nolan discussed that he was interested in doing a Bond film, which basically got everyone excited even though we all agreed it was probably a long shot. However, with Sam Mendes stepping down after br...   more

Christopher Nolan offered the next Bond film photo

Trailer: Pacific Rim

OK Pacific Rim, we get it. You're going to be awesome. This new trailer shows off even more robots punching monsters than we've seen before and it's hard to be anything but excited for this much robot on monster action....   more

Trailer: Pacific Rim photo

FlixList: The best Star Trek movies

That title is a bit of a misnomer since I'm listing all of the Star Trek films here so really it's about ranking them from best to worst, but if we consider the fact that all Star Trek movies are awesome simply by b...   more

FlixList: The best Star Trek movies photo

See After Earth early and free

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See After Earth early and free photo

Trailer: About Time

You know what the problem with The Time Travelers Wife was? It was so depressing. Time travel is supposed to be fun and about how you'd go back and be better in bed. Rachel McAdams clearly understood this which is why s...   more

Trailer: About Time photo

Schwarzenegger in talks for Toxic Avenger

The Toxic Avenger remake has been floating around for a while now with Steve Pink set to helm the film and Loyd Kauffman all about it as long as he gets paid. What we weren't all about were rumors that John Travolta...   more

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Trailer: Captain Phillips

The dramatic and thrilling ordeal of the Maersk Alabama was ripe for movie making the second it started splashing across news screens. The first American ship to be boarded by pirates since the 19th century? Navy Seals?...   more

Trailer: Captain Phillips photo

Photos give first look of Wachowski's Jupiter Ascending

The Wachowski Siblings’ newest film Jupiter Ascending is under way as the two shoot a chase scene at London's Natural History Museum that involves a skate ramp that jumps over a giant dinosaur. That's probably...   more

Photos give first look of Wachowski's Jupiter Ascending photo

Jurassic Park 4 delayed for quality purposes

It appears that we will have to wait a little longer for Jurassic Park 4 to land. The film was originally schedule to come out next summer and the screenplay was all ship shape with director Colin Trevorrow set to take t...   more

Jurassic Park 4 delayed for quality purposes photo

Review: The Great Gatsby

First off, if you don't understand that sub-header than you need to crack F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby open and give it a read. If you're like me you haven't touched the thing since high school and it's well worth a...   more

Review: The Great Gatsby photo

See Star Trek: Into Darkness for free

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See Star Trek: Into Darkness for free photo

Star Trek: Into Darkness releasing earlier after sell out

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Star Trek: Into Darkness releasing earlier after sell out photo

Trailer: Ender's Game

It's been a long hard road for Ender's Game to make it to the big screen, but we're almost there and with this trailer we get our first extended look at how Orson Scott Card's seminal science-fiction novel will appear o...   more

Trailer: Ender's Game photo

See Now You See Me early and free

Now You See Me might be the sleeper hit of the summer if it turns out to be as thrilling and weird as the trailer makes it out to be. Running a bit in the background thanks to the plethora of blockbusters landing in the ...   more

See Now You See Me early and free photo

David Tennant rumored for Guardians of the Galaxy

As with the Jim Carrey/Adam Sandler murmurings this bit of news is being slapped with a big rumor on it, but word has come that David Tennant is in talks to join the cast of James Gunn's Guardians of the Galaxy as Rocket...   more

David Tennant rumored for Guardians of the Galaxy photo

Cleopatra getting 50th anniversary re-releases

Cleopatra, the epic film known as much for its off screen issues as it was for its grandeur, is turning 50 this year and 20th Century Fox isn't about to miss out on the opportunity to celebrate it. They've remastered the...   more

Cleopatra getting 50th anniversary re-releases photo

New art for Guardians of the Galaxy, bit of Ant-Man talk

EW is busting out with Marvel's two new hero movies coming out during Phase 2 of their awesome movie universe: Guardians of the Galaxy and Ant-Man. The pretty picture above is some concept art from the film that shows ha...   more

New art for Guardians of the Galaxy, bit of Ant-Man talk photo