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  • Film Review: Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die

    Film Review: Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die

    By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation Maybe one of the few working directors who can actually earn the “from the twisted mind” phrase in his marketing, Gore Verbinski returns after a 9 year hiatus after audience soundly rejected the wildly underrated – and exceptionally bizarre – A Cure for Wellness and sent Verbinski into director’s jail.…

  • Film Review: Iron Lung

    Film Review: Iron Lung

    By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation Made on a small budget of $3 million or less, Iron Lung is something of a minor miracle in the fact that it’s even good in the first place. Mark Fischbach – better known as Markiplier both online and to his fans – isn’t necessarily a newcomer to horror or…

  • Film Review: Send Help

    Film Review: Send Help

    By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation It’s been a long time since a full blown, true Sam Raimi flick hasn’t there? Sure, he’s made a couple of blockbusters like the scattershot if entertaining Oz the Great and Powerful and the wildly misunderstood Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, but when it comes to the horror…

  • Film Review: Arco

    Film Review: Arco

    By Matthew Moorcroft Solid Recommendation As animated films go, Arco is as animated as they come. Quite literally, in fact, as the rainbow colors that adorn it’s title character leap off the screen and feel simply just made for the animated medium. You simply just can’t tell a story like this in live action, and…

  • Film Review: Hamnet

    Film Review: Hamnet

    By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation In some ways a return to form for acclaimed indie filmmaker Chloe Zhao in terms of subject matter, Hamnet is positioned on the surface as a much deserved victory lap film after her Best Picture winning Nomadland swept audiences away and her divisive MCU flick Eternals confused those same audiences…

  • Film Review: Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie

    Film Review: Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie

    By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation Arguably the first movie to have Toronto be a main character in it’s own right, Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie begins with a stunt so ludicrous and insane that you would think that they would save it for later on in the film as the big show stopper…

  • Film Review: All You Need is Kill

    Film Review: All You Need is Kill

    By Matthew Moorcroft Solid Recommendation The second film adaptation of the Japanese novel, All You Need is Kill is in a strange scenario that doesn’t happen often in the medium – specifically that of the American version being the first one out of the gate. Having previously been adapted as the great Tom Cruise vehicle…

  • Film Review: Primate

    Film Review: Primate

    By Matthew Moorcroft Solid Recommendation Primate is one of those movies that tells you everything you need to know about it basically right away before you even see it. A pet chimpanzee, named Ben, has gone rabid (quite literally, actually) and his loving family is now the target of his aggression. And if you know…

  • Film Review: Marty Supreme

    Film Review: Marty Supreme

    By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation Marty Mauser has a dream. He wants to not just a champion, but THE champion; a name to be remembered by history and the rest of the world. A tall order, and it’s for table tennis no less, a sport that at this point in history was only starting to…

  • Film Review: Wake Up Dead Man

    Film Review: Wake Up Dead Man

    By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation One of the best things about modern day cinema is that every couple of years, without fail, there is a new Benoit Blanc mystery available to us. The latest, Wake Up Dead Man, is probably the biggest swerve of them yet, removing itself from the class critiques of the prior…