Originally published in Shawnee News, a middle school newspaper (June, 1999) The question in this article's headline is not going to be answered. The fact of the matter is, there may never be such an answer, for how can you explain the events in Littleton, Colorado?...
“Movie Review” (my first movie review)
Aug 26, 2023 | Matthewrozsa
This is the first movie review that I ever had published. It appeared in the June 1999 edition of "Shawnee News," the school newspaper of "Shawnee Middle School" in Easton, PA. Its title was simply, "Movie Review."To better understand who I was as a human being when I...

Fact-checking my MAGA assailants’ dishonest tweet
Nov 28, 2022 | Autobiographical, Matthewrozsa
Update (April 6th, 2023): It is very difficult for me to write about these traumatizing events. I believe that the easiest way for a third party to be introduced to what happened is by reading the full article below, which was first published on Nov. 28, 2022. If you...
Review for “Cont;nue” — and a candid discussion of my own suicidality
Nov 21, 2022 | Arts and Entertainment, Matthewrozsa, Mental Illness, Reviews
“Bad day? Kill yourself. Heart broken? Kill yourself. Parking ticket? Kill yourself.” When Dean (Nadine Crocker) utters this line in the 2022 film “Cont;nue,” it is with a wry, glib and darkly self-aware gallows humor. In lesser stories, that approach might be a mere...

Autism Tale: One of Trump’s fake electors physically attacked me… and my college doesn’t have my back
Oct 10, 2022 | Asperger's Syndrome, Matthewrozsa, Media Issues
My Introduction… to Medium (as shown on medium.com): On Feb. 3rd of this year, an attorney named Tom Carroll physically attacked me. He wasn’t alone; two other men helped him, but I don’t know their names. I do know this: I suffered a concussion, and still have...
My Apology to a Civil War Veteran
Jun 22, 2022 | Matthewrozsa
Today marks a sad occasion. Exactly 136 years ago, a veteran who was injured serving his country during the Civil War was humiliated by a president... a man who had hired a substitute. The Civil War veteran was Alfred Denny. During his time of service, he was thrown...
Review for “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre”
Jun 22, 2022 | Matthewrozsa
As a film critic, I try to have an open mind about the movies that I watch and rewatch. In the case of “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” — not the 1974 classic directed by Tobe Hooper, but the 2003 cult classic directed by Marcus Nispel — I return to the flick again and...
Title: Review for “10,000 BC”:
Mar 21, 2022 | Matthewrozsa, Reviews
"10,000 BC" does not deserve its bad rap. It is not the worse reviewed film in director Roland Emmerich's oeuvre (that distinction belongs to "Moon 44"), but it is perhaps his most infamous. "Boring" is a word that I often hear from casual moviegoers who have watched...
Review for ‘Pulse 2: Afterlife’
Dec 17, 2021 | Matthewrozsa, Reviews
The “Pulse” trilogy is to the Internet what certain episodes of “The Twilight Zone” are to space travel and computers. (I am going to focus on the second movie, “Pulse 2: Afterlife,” but also discuss the other two films.) That anachronistic take on tech is one of the...
Review for ‘Uncle Simon’
Sep 12, 2021 | Matthewrozsa, Reviews
I want an action figure of Robby the Robot... but with a metallic face under his translucent dome, as opposed to the tubes, wires, spheres and flashing lights seen in the 1956 sci-fi film "Forbidden Planet." The reason for this is simple: Without that cold, cruel...