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Film Review: Top Gun: Maverick

By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation Directed by Joseph Kosinski Starring Tom Cruise, Miles Teller, Jennifer Connelly, Val Kilmer PG-13 What makes a legacy sequel a “legacy sequel”? That term has been thrown around quite a bit over the past few years for any sequel that comes out decades after the original but I think it’s…
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Box Office Report: ‘Top Gun’ Soars to Career Best for Tom Cruise

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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…
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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,…
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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…
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Star Wars Wednesdays: Revenge of the Sith

By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation Directed by George Lucas Starring Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman, Hayden Christensen, Ian McDiarmid PG-13 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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…