Author: matthewmoorcroft

  • Box Office Report: ‘Top Gun’ Soars to Career Best for Tom Cruise

    Box Office Report: ‘Top Gun’ Soars to Career Best for Tom Cruise

    By Matthew Moorcroft Despite it’s numerous delays, Top Gun: Maverick ends up on top thanks to an impressive showing that may hold the key to figuring out what film will be the big hit of the summer. Hint, it’s not a Marvel film this time! Let’s break it down. 1 – Top Gun: Maverick ($126.7…

  • TV Review: Obi-Wan Kenobi, Episodes 1-2

    TV Review: Obi-Wan Kenobi, Episodes 1-2

    By Matthew Moorcroft Part I – Strong RecommendationPart II – Strong Recommendation Directed by Deborah Chow Starring Ewan McGregor, Rupert Friend, Moses Ingram, Vivien Lyra Blair TV-14 I’ll be the first to admit that Star Wars hasn’t exactly impressed me as of late. Sure there has been some episodes of The Mandalorian that were strong…

  • TV Review: Arcane Season 1, Episodes 7-9

    TV Review: Arcane Season 1, Episodes 7-9

    By Matthew Moorcroft Episode 7 (The Boy Saviour) – Highest RecommendationEpisode 8 (Oil and Water) – Highest RecommendationEpisode 9 (The Monster You Created) – Highest Recommendation Directed by Pascal Charrue & Arnaud Delord Starring Hailee Steinfeld, Ella Purnell, Kevin Alejandro, Katie Leung TV-14 When Ekko first shows himself again after an entire act of disappearance,…

  • Film Review: Men

    Film Review: Men

    By Matthew Unsure Directed by Alex Garland Starring Jessie Buckley, Rory Kinnear, Paapa Essiedu, Gayle Rankin R What’s great about Alex Garland as a writer is the fact that every work of his is a massive swing. He’s more like a star baseball player then that of a genre fiction creator in that, when up…

  • Star Wars Wednesdays: Revenge of the Sith

    Star Wars Wednesdays: Revenge of the Sith

    By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation Welcome to Star Wars Wednesdays! Every Wednesday I’ll be talking about/looking at a new piece of Star Wars media, starting with the movies and going onwards into the shows, games, and maybe even comics and books if people are interested. These will work differently from my normal reviews as they…

  • Box Office Report: ‘Doctor Strange’ Stays Put, ‘Firestarter’ Fizzles

    Box Office Report: ‘Doctor Strange’ Stays Put, ‘Firestarter’ Fizzles

    By Matthew Moorcroft A new release this weekend goes to battle against reigning champion Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. Does it work out? Let’s break it down. 1 – Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness ($61 million) Unsurprisingly, Doctor Strange held onto the first place spot in it’s second weekend, albeit with…

  • TV Review: Arcane Season 1, Episodes 4-6

    TV Review: Arcane Season 1, Episodes 4-6

    By Matthew Moorcroft Episode 4 (Happy Progress Day!) – Highest RecommendationEpisode 5 (Everybody Wants to Be My Enemy) – Highest RecommendationEpisode 6 (When These Walls Come Tumbling Down) – Highest Recommendation Directed by Pascal Charrue & Arnaud Delord Starring Hailee Steinfeld, Ella Purnell, Kevin Alejandro, Katie Leung TV-14 Progress is a bitch, isn’t it? I…

  • Film Review: Firestarter (2022)

    Film Review: Firestarter (2022)

    By Matthew Moorcroft Screw This Directed By Keith Thomas Starring Zac Efron, Ryan Kiera Armstrong, Sydney Lemmon, Michael Greyeyes R We live in a weird age of Stephen King resurgence where pretty much everything that he has adapted is either getting brought back for a do-over or some kind of continuation. And with the amount…

  • The ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ Teaser Has Me Feeling All of the Things

    The ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ Teaser Has Me Feeling All of the Things

    By Matthew Moorcroft I can’t stop watching the trailer for Avatar: The Way of Water. This tends to happen sometimes when I hyper fixate on a particular upcoming release, but it usually happens closer to said release as I prep myself and my own ADHD goes into overtime trying to compensate for things. It’s only…

  • Star Wars Wednesdays: Attack of the Clones

    Star Wars Wednesdays: Attack of the Clones

    By Matthew Moorcroft No Recommendation Directed by George Lucas Starring Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman, Hayden Christensen, Christopher Lee PG Welcome to Star Wars Wednesdays! Every Wednesday I’ll be talking about/looking at a new piece of Star Wars media, starting with the movies and going onwards into the shows, games, and maybe even comics and books…