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Film Review: Primate
By Matthew Moorcroft Solid Recommendation Directed by Johannes Roberts Starring Johnny Sequoyah, Jessica Alexander, Troy Kotsur, Miguel Torres Umba R Primate is one of those movies that tells you everything you need to know about it basically right away before you even see it. A pet chimpanzee, named Ben, has gone rabid (quite literally, actually)…
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Film Review: Marty Supreme
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation Directed by Josh Safdie Starring Timothee Chalamet, Gwyneth Paltrow, Odessa A’zion, Kevin O’Leary R Marty Mauser has a dream. He wants to not just a champion, but THE champion; a name to be remembered by history and the rest of the world. A tall order, and it’s for table tennis…
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Film Review: Wake Up Dead Man
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation Directed by Rian Johnson Starring Daniel Craig, Josh O’Connor, Glenn Close, Josh Brolin PG-13 One of the best things about modern day cinema is that every couple of years, without fail, there is a new Benoit Blanc mystery available to us. The latest, Wake Up Dead Man, is probably the…
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Film Review: Avatar: Fire and Ash
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation Directed by James Cameron Starring Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Stephen Lang, Sigourney Weaver PG-13 The Sully family is grieving. This also means, due to the nature of Pandora and it’s interconnected ecosystem, the entirety of Pandora is grieving in unison, and that’s the moment we start off with in Avatar:…
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Film Review: Wicked: For Good
By Matthew Moorcroft Weak Recommendation Directed by Jon M. Chu Starring Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande, Jonathan Bailey, Jeff Goldblum PG The biggest challenge of adapting Wicked was always going to that pesky second act, wasn’t it? I’m not really sure how to review or look at Wicked: For Good (which should really be called Wicked:…
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Film Review: The Running Man
By Matthew Moorcroft Weak Recommendation Directed by Edgar Wright Starring Glen Powell, Michael Cera, Colman Domingo, Josh Brolin R Taking another stab at adapting one of Stephen King’s most provocative novels, The Running Man takes it’s title almost entirely literally as it hits the ground at top speed and never really slows down for a…
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Film Review: Bugonia
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos Starring Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Aidan Delbis, Alicia Silverstone R The master of uncomfortable cinema returning for another round, Yorgos Lanthimos’ gleefully dark and cynical Bugonia opens with a long discussion about the nature of the honeybee worker. Jesse Plemons’ Teddy, who is the focus of…
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Film Review: If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation Directed by Mary Bronstein Starring Rose Byrne, Conan O’Brien, Christian Slater, ASAP Rocky R The bleakly funny and overtly stressful – almost painfully so – If I Had Legs I’d Kick You starts with a flooding, both metaphorically and literally. Literally in that Linda, the at her wit’s end mother…
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Film Review: The Secret Agent
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation Directed by Kleber Mendonca Filho Starring Wagner Moura, Carlos Francisco, Tania Maria, Roberio Diogenes R I have spent a lot of time mulling over The Secret Agent. Out of all the films I saw at WIFF this year, it’s the one that has most intrigued me from both a technical…
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Film Review: Cloud
By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation Directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa Starring Masaki Suda, Kotone Furukawa, Daiken Okudaira, Amane Okayama Not Rated Kiyoshi Kurosawa really doesn’t like the internet. As far back as the late 90s Kuorsawa has tapped into his own personal fears about what it’s like to live away from people, attached to too much…
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