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Matthew Cheney

Matthew Cheney's debut collection of fiction, Blood: Stories, won the Hudson Prize and was published by Black Lawrence Press in 2016. He is Assistant Professor and Director of Interdisciplinary Studies at Plymouth State University.

Stand by Me

Summer of ‘86: Rob Reiner’s Stand By Me at 25, Take Two

by Matthew Cheney
August 10, 2011

The film is an elegy for Chris, and so it became an elegy for the youthfulness and beauty of River Phoenix himself.

Maximum Overdrive

Summer of ‘86: Stephen King’s Maximum Overdrive

by Matthew Cheney
August 4, 2011

There is very little wowwww in Maximum Overdrive, but it is not as bad as its reputation.

Summer of '85: Rambo: First Blood Part II, Take One

Summer of ‘85: Rambo: First Blood Part II, Take One

by Matthew Cheney
June 29, 2010

It was a joke, of course. But not entirely. Rambo II offered not just entertainment, but lessons.

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