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  • Film Review: Minions & Monsters

    Film Review: Minions & Monsters

    By Matthew Moorcroft Solid Recommendation While their appeal may have diminished overtime, one forgets there was a time when the Minions, the yellow pill shaped creatures that are Illumination’s mascots (and the bane of certain parents’ existence), once actually were somewhat appealing. The original Despicable Me isn’t a perfect movie by any means, in fact…

  • Film Review: Leviticus

    Film Review: Leviticus

    By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation Seduction and the fear of desire are something that are intrinsically linked in horror and have been for some time. While the reasons are mostly socially – mainly the advent of puritan culture and conservatism in regards to sexuality – it has meant that horror has always that seductive background…

  • Film Review: Supergirl

    Film Review: Supergirl

    By Matthew Moorcroft Unsure In true DC fashion, Supergirl is a bit of a strange oddity. You would think that years after the fact that DC Studios, having seen first hand the implosion of the original DCEU and the general healthy skepticism towards new superhero fare that general audiences have maintained post-Endgame, would learn from…

  • Film Review: Toy Story 5

    Film Review: Toy Story 5

    By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation Like all of the nigh-perfect entries in the series that came before it, Toy Story 5 plays as equally if not more to the adults in the audience as it does the children it’s supposedly aimed. In the case of prior films, those extended to it’s existential questions about the…

  • I Saw the Digital Circus Glow

    I Saw the Digital Circus Glow

    By Matthew Moorcroft CONTENT WARNING: This editorial discusses themes of suicide and trans dysphoria. In the 1983 body horror classic Videodrome, our lead character Max Renn, the CEO of TV station, continually finds himself being transformed and morphed into a being that is not himself. Starting with the psychological, with him slowly but surely having…

  • Film Review: The Furious

    Film Review: The Furious

    By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation An apt title for a movie whose main energy is always at a thousand percent, The Furious feels like the second coming of Christ if you are a martial arts flick kind of guy. Ever since the late 90s, Hong Kong action cinema has been around but it has lacked…

  • Film Review: Disclosure Day

    Film Review: Disclosure Day

    By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation Launching you straight into a conspiracy thriller where the ultimate question is less about what the conspiracy and more about the aftershocks, Disclosure Day is Spielberg, in some ways, returning to old ground. This isn’t his first rodeo with aliens, let alone ones where the entire premise is built on…

  • Film Review: I Love Boosters

    Film Review: I Love Boosters

    By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation When it comes to Boots Riley as a filmmaker, you both know what you are getting yourself into while also have no idea what to expect. The prolific artist who has run the gambit from hip hop to film to political activism has a unique voice that, try as people…

  • Film Review: Backrooms

    Film Review: Backrooms

    By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation In a year where horror has proven to be dominated the young, the youngest may have saved the best for last with Backrooms. At only 19 years old, Kane Parsons is a newcomer who has been given the once in a lifetime opportunity to adapt his own work to the…

  • Film Review: Passenger

    Film Review: Passenger

    By Matthew Moorcroft Unsure Smushed between two major horror releases as well as a major blockbuster release, Passenger would feel doomed if it wasn’t for it’s viral (and genuinely impressive) theater only teaser from several months ago that made audiences squirm and jump in their seats. It’s a testament to the power of marketing that…