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Film Review: Nosferatu
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation Early in Nosferatu, our leading man Thomas finds himself at a literal crossroads waiting for a carriage that will take him to his next client – the mysterious and reclusive Count Orlok, who lives in Transylvania alone and has “one foot in the grave” so to speak. The night is…
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Film Review: A Complete Unknown
By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation In 2005, director James Mangold released Walk the Line, a biopic on legendary singer and artist Johnny Cash. While many a music biopic have come and gone these days, Walk the Line is in a lot of ways the prototype for the type of film that most have come to…
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Film Review: Sonic the Hedgehog 3
By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation I’m finding it difficult to start my writeup this time around. Normally how these things go is “unfunny one liner to grab your attention, explaining the premise, and then launching into tirades about nothing”, which works for about 95% of the things I write without fail. Rinse, repeat, post, see…
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Film Review: A Different Man
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation Aaron Schimberg’s A Different Man, which begins on a man’s face being scanned for the possibility of treatment, is one of the most unique films of the year simply by the means of it’s execution. Steeped in old school cinematography stylings that wouldn’t feel out of place in something like…
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Film Review: Kneecap
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation I’ll be the first to admit that I’m not exactly fully verse in the complex geopolitical landmine that is Northern Ireland. My experience with it is completely tangential and mostly through screens, news, and media; I’m witnessing it mostly through others eyes rather then my own. It’s interesting though how…
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Film Review: The Seed of the Sacred Fig
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation Mohammad Rasoulof has more guts then anybody else alive right now. The Seed of the Sacred Fig is worth watching regardless of it’s quality simply cause of the things that director Rasoulof had to go through in order to get it made. Rasoulof has been arrested by Iranian authorities several…
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Film Review: All We Imagine as Light
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation The immediately gorgeous and tender All We Imagine as Light actually begins rather quaint compared to what you might expect considering the sheer amount of praise this has gotten since it’s debut at Cannes. The otherwise simple story of the friendship between three woman is a tale old as time;…
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Film Review: Misericordia
By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation Immediately from the onset, Misericordia is bizarre. Not just in the usual “oh you quirky French” kind of way – though there is definitely a bit of that – but also in that something is very clearly off about this otherwise idyllic small French town. Our lead, Jérémie, is here…
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Film Review: Dahomey
By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation There are 7000 historical artifacts from the kingdom of Dahomey that were stolen. The French colonial rule took these for the taking, and nowadays the objects sit for viewing at the Paris museum Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac, just waiting there. Sitting. It wasn’t until 2020 that 26…
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Film Review: Young Hearts
By Matthew Moorcroft Solid Recommendation Young Hearts, for better and for worst, is mostly sweet and unassuming. And this is mostly by design; it wants to be cozy, comfort version of these kinds of stories, a Close without much of the same heartbreak or alienation that can come from films of it’s ilk. I would…
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