Matt Goddard

Writer and Journalist, Tech start-up CMO, Cartoonist and Editor-in-Chief of @theJokerside pop culture blog. Read all about it here!

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Personas: Running from Valentine – David Bowie’s Other Egos
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As Lazarus prepares to open in Amsterdam, a glimpse at one of David Bowie’s most fascinating, incendiary and final creations. The enigmatic Valentine …
Personas: Chasing Major Tom – David Bowie’s Other Egos
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His fate remains shrouded in jewel-encrusted mystery, but David Bowie’s first significant creation had staying power. The enigmatic Major Tom …
Chopping Down A Dolls House: What if The White Album was a single album?
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The Beatles, more commonly known as the White Album, turns 50 today. A difficult, brilliant hulk of an album, it’s spent five decades defying the …
Personas: Letting the Evening Go with Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band – The Beatles Other Egos
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It was 51 years ago… that the Beatles disappeared, shunted to the side by an Edwardian military band. The Lonely Hearts Club Band, taught to play by …
The Dark Knight at 10: 10 ways it Introduced a Little Anarchy
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“Why so Serious?” Heath Ledger’s Joker, disappearing pencils, Harvey’s lucky coin, love triangles, Batpods and a Caped Crusader having to cross the …
Star Trek Discovery Series 1: Our review of Trek’s new Wagon Train to the Stars
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Jokerside doesn’t often do reviews, but when it does, it’s for something big. When Star Trek returned to its natural small screen home for the first …
Jokershorts: Pop Culture talking points - 15 March 2019
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delivered by Jokerside.com Matt GoddardBlockedUnblockFollowFollowing Mar 15 It’s only Jokerside’s six and a half birthday today! We’ve put on a party hat …
The Raven | 20 March 2019 Marketing, Media & Tech round-up
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captured by @mattketing Matt GoddardBlockedUnblockFollowFollowing Mar 20 The Raven delivers 10 talking points across #media, #tech & #marketing… It’s …
The Raven | 5 March 2019 Marketing, Media & Tech round-up
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curated by @mattketing Matt GoddardBlockedUnblockFollowFollowing Mar 5 The Raven delivers 10 talking points across #media, #tech & #marketing… And this …
The Raven | 30 January 2019 Marketing, Media & Tech round-up
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curated by @mattketing Matt GoddardBlockedUnblockFollowFollowing Jan 30 The Raven delivers 10 talking points across #media, #tech and #marketing. “I am …
Oscars 2019 – Catching the Best Films, Round 91
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My race to catch the Oscar films was on… Host or not! Here’s my take on the contenders. 2018 was the first year I managed to watch every Academy Award …
The Candy Wrap: Christmas Ad Review 2018
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“Reliving the adverts, so you can’t forget them” – my annual round-up of UK advertising candy returns! EVERY YEAR I START TALKING ABOUT THE SEASON’S …
Dishing up: Eurovision Festa Portuguesa
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To Portugal… Once again improvisation and unconventional cooking methods are the real friends in my annual tribute to the world’s longest-running …
Oscars 2018 – Catching the Best Films, Round 90
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For about a decade I’ve tried to catch every Oscar-nominated film. This year I actually managed it. Catching Oscar Nominees in a timely fashion sounds …
Lumiere London 2018
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“There’s a hole in the world like a great black pit, and the vermin of the world inhabit it. And it’s morals aren’t worth what a pig can spit, and it …
The Candy Wrap: Christmas Ad Review 2017
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“Reliving the adverts, so you can’t forget them” My second Christmas ad wrap – that makes a tradition! Here’s my round-up of this year’s best of …
Turner Prize 2017 – Quiet confrontation in Hull
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2017’s Turner Prize hit Hull, in the kind of City of Culture-linked synergy that should give a strong boost to the post-‘is it art?’ conversation the …
A step around Hull: City of Culture 2017
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Hull: City of Culture 2017. In the year it dawned on some that the game will soon be up for European-supported cultural cities, Kingston-Upon-Hull …
Top Mod: Marc Bolan’s Cosmic Dance 40 years on – The Seven Phases of T Rex
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Seven stages of Mark Bolan’s career to mark the 40th anniversary of the King of Hackney’s death. Today brings one of rock’s saddest anniversaries – …
Star Trek: Discovery Episode 15 — “Will you Take my Hand?”
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The Jokerside.com review Matt GoddardBlockedUnblockFollowFollowing Mar 11 Discovery’s initial voyage comes to a close, after a spectacular season of …
The Raven | 5 February 2019 Marketing, Media & Tech round-up — Super Bowl LIII Special
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curated by @mattketing Matt GoddardBlockedUnblockFollowFollowing Feb 5 The Raven delivers 10 talking points across #media, #tech & #marketing… And this …
Star Trek: Discovery Episode 14 — The War Without, the War Within
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The Jokerside.com review Matt GoddardBlockedUnblockFollowFollowing Jan 20 Meanwhile back in the real universe… Star Trek Discovery has to keep its …
Star Trek: Discovery Episode 13 — “What’s Past is Prologue”
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The Jokerside.com review Matt GoddardBlockedUnblockFollowFollowing Jan 20 Thought Discovery was haunted by The Wrath of Khan? You ain’t seen nothing …
Star Trek: Discovery Episode 12 — “Vaulting Ambition”
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The Jokerside.com review Matt GoddardBlockedUnblockFollowFollowing Feb 11, 2018 Revelations are coming thick and fast, but there’s every sense that …
Star Trek: Discovery Episode 11 — “The Wolf Inside”
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The Jokerside.com review Matt GoddardBlockedUnblockFollowFollowing Feb 11, 2018 The stakes have never been higher on-screen and off… As the strands of …
Star Trek: Discovery Episode 10 — “Despite Yourself”
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The Jokerside.com review Matt GoddardBlockedUnblockFollowFollowing Feb 10, 2018 This is it, the big one: Discovery’s back after its mid-season break. …
Star Trek: Discovery Episode 9 — “Into the Forest I Go” Review
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The Jokerside.com review Matt GoddardBlockedUnblockFollowFollowing Jan 22, 2018 An inversion of a pertinent Original Series classic has set up Star …
Star Trek: Discovery Episode 8— “Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum”
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The Jokerside.com review Matt GoddardBlockedUnblockFollowFollowing Jan 14, 2018 From an explosive beginning, Discovery’s eighth episode splits they crew …
Star Trek: Discovery Episode 6 — “Lethe”
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The Jokerside.com review Matt GoddardBlockedUnblockFollowFollowing Oct 26, 2017 A series well in its stride, Discovery has no intention of giving up its …
The Pop Culture Round-Up! Jokershorts — 28 October 2017 [Halloween Special!]
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powered by Jokerside.com Matt GoddardBlockedUnblockFollowFollowing Oct 28, 2017 The latest trailers, news, gossip and reviews from planet pop culture! …