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Film Review: Hokum
By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation Directed by Damian McCarthy Starring Adam Scott, Peter Coonan, David Wilmot, Florence Ordesh R As early as five minutes in, Hokum is already going for the jugular. To some, jump scares are an easy tactic, but to somebody like Damian McCarthy it’s clear that it can also be an artform…
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Film Review: Mother Mary
By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation Directed by David Lowery Starring Anne Hathaway, Michaela Coel, Hunter Schafer, FKA Twigs R Playing into the metaphysical and poetic, Mother Mary is exactly the kind of film that you would expect David Lowery to make. At his core, Lowery is a filmmaker that plays into emotion and vibes first…
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Film Review: Lee Cronin’s The Mummy
By Matthew Moorcroft Solid Recommendation Directed by Lee Cronin Starring Jack Reynor, Laia Costa, May Calamawy, Natalie Grace R Almost as nasty as an actual decaying corpse, Lee Cronin’s The Mummy, which is indeed the full title, revels in it’s gruesome horror. Less overtly scary and more focused on being as disgusting and gross as…
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Film Review: The Drama
By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation Directed by Kristoffer Borgli Starring Zendaya, Robert Pattinson, Alana Haim, Mamoudou Athie R Ever hear somebody say something so shocking and unexpected you can just hear a pin drop and literally feel the air being sucked out of the room? That’s the entire impetus of The Drama, which finds the…
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Film Review: The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
By Matthew Moorcroft Unsure Directed by Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic Starring Chris Pratt, Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Day, Jack Black PG Seemingly designed from the ground up to be as frenetic and as fast moving as possible to keep the attention of even the smallest of hyperactive children (or hyperactive, chronically online adults), The Super…
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Film Review: Project Hail Mary
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation Directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller Starring Ryan Gosling, Sandra Huller, James Ortiz, Lionel Boyce PG-13 The Earth is dying. Something is dimming the sun, and we only have 30 years to really prevent it or things are going to get bad really fast. Project Hail Mary, as a…
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Film Review: The Bride!
By Matthew Moorcroft Unsure Directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal Starring Jessie Buckley, Christian Bale, Peter Sarsgaard, Penélope Cruz R Bursting onto the frame with a loud, overwhelming jolt to the senses not unsimiliar to the very lightning bolt that brought Frankenstein’s monster to life years and years ago, The Bride! is almost as unwieldy and impossible…
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Film Review: Undertone
By Matthew Moorcroft Weak Recommendation Directed by Ian Tuason Starring Nina Kiri, Adam DiMarco, Michele Duquet, Keana Lyn Bastidas R One of the canon rules of horror is that usually what you don’t see is scarier then what you do see. Undertone, with it’s focus on auditory horror and a sole lead actor on screen…
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Film Review: Hoppers
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation Directed by Daniel Chong Starring Piper Curda, Bobby Moynihan, Jon Hamm, Dave Franco PG It doesn’t take long to realize that Hoppers is the real deal from Pixar. Probably the studio that has struggled the most post-pandemic, small success stories like Elemental and big blockbuster hits like Inside Out 2…
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Film Review: Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die
By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation Directed by Gore Verbinski Starring Sam Rockwell, Haley Lu Richardson, Michael Pena, Juno Temple R 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…
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