Behind the Scenes - LOVE AND MONSTERS with director Michael Matthews

<p>If you give me just 2 seconds I'm going to blow your mind.  <em>Love and Monsters</em> is going to be your favorite movie of 2020. There I said it.  Admittedly, it's not mine. But it will be yours.  That's because it's TIED for my favorite movie of the year with <em><a href= "https://www.alternateending.com/2020/10/spontaneous-review-2020.html"> Spontaneous</a>.</em> Which, I realize it cheating, but there are no rules around here.</p> <h2>First a bit about Michael Matthews<em>…</em></h2> <p>I have no idea how old Michael Matthews is, but what I'm coming to find is that by the time you're making great movies in Hollywood, you're more than likely just-about my age.  I pressure test this by dropping breadcrumbs for them to disclose their favorite movies.  If they say something like, <em>The Machinist</em>, I'm thinking "hmmm good taste, but favorite?"... if they something like (<em><a href= "https://www.alternateending.com/2009/07/see-it-with-someone-you-dont-love.html">500 Days of Summer</a>)</em>, again I'm thinking "Cute, but you're wrong" and if they say <a href= "https://www.alternateending.com/2010/07/past-the-wit-of-man-to-say-what-dream-it-was.html"> <em>Inception</em></a>, I just assume they're 15 years old and know nothing of cinema and I hang up on them. Or they're Rob.</p> <p>But let me tell you what happened, I dropped my breadcrumb.  Matthews throws out Jurassic Park and Indiana Jones and that's when I knew.  We were going to be best friends forever (<em>don't tell him, he doesn't know yet</em>) and that he's probably 37-ish.</p> <p>Michael Matthews is a South African director whose feature Five Fingers for Marseilles, won the award for best film at the Africa Movie Academy Awards. His film also received 10 nominations, including awards for best film, best first feature film by a director and best cinematography. The film was also nominated for Best Achievement in Directing - Feature Film at 2017 <a title="South African Film and Television Awards" href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_African_