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Film Review: Leviticus
By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation Directed by Adrian Chiarella Starring Joe Bird, Stacy Clausen, Jeremy Blewitt, Mia Wasikowska R 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…
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Film Review: Supergirl
By Matthew Moorcroft Unsure Directed by Craig Gillespie Starring Milly Alcock, Matthias Schoenaerts, Eve Ridley, Jason Momoa PG-13 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…
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Film Review: Toy Story 5
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation Directed by Andrew Stanton Starring Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack, Greta Lee PG 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.…
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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…
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Film Review: The Furious
By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation Directed by Kenji Tanigaki Starring Xie Miao, Joe Taslim, Brian Le, Yayan Ruhian R 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…
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Film Review: Disclosure Day
By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation Directed by Steven Spielberg Starring Emily Blunt, Josh O’Connor, Colin Firth, Colman Domingo PG-13 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…
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Film Review: I Love Boosters
By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation Directed by Boots Riley Starring Keke Palmer, Naomi Ackie, Taylour Paige, Demi Moore R 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…
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Film Review: Backrooms
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation Directed by Kane Parsons Starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Renate Reinsve, Mark Duplass, Finn Bennett R 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…
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Film Review: Passenger
By Matthew Moorcroft Unsure Directed by Andre Øvredal Starring Jacob Scipio, Lou Llobell, Melissa Leo, Joseph Lopez R 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…
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Film Review: The Mandalorian and Grogu
By Matthew Moorcroft No Recommendation Directed by Jon Favreau Starring Pedro Pascal, Jeremy Allen White, Brendan Wayne, Sigourney Weaver PG-13 The fact this doesn’t even have the “A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away…” intro card should be red flag number one. It’s impossible for me to be rational with Star Wars.…
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