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Why You Should Be Excited for Dragon Ball DAIMA’s Dub
By Matthew Moorcroft As a longtime Dragon Ball fan, DAIMA is an exceptionally difficult series to talk about critically. The tragic passing of Akira Toriyama earlier this year looms large over the show, which works as a “back to basics” style affair that blends the adventure of the original Dragon Ball series while also keeping…
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Film Review: The Apprentice
By Matthew Moorcroft Solid Recommendation Honestly, in the wake of the 2024 US elections, The Apprentice is a film that seems more and more less like a warning or an omen and more like a solemn realization. You would think that a film about the most talked about man in the world wouldn’t be interesting,…
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Film Review: Anora
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation Anora (or Ani, as everybody calls her) is a sex worker. A stripper specifically, though she isn’t opposed to some “side gigs” so to speak if it helps pays the bills. In one of the most electric needledrops of the year, which happens basically 5 seconds into the film, we…
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Film Review: Solo Leveling: ReAwakening
By Matthew Moorcroft Unsure There is a moment in Solo Leveling‘s first season that makes it pretty clear what it’s intentions are off the bat, and it’s exceptionally early. When our lead, Sung Jin-woo (Shun Mizushino in Japanese), heads to a dungeon with some fellow hunters, only to find a second, far more deadly one…
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Film Review: The Substance
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation Immediately after walking out of The Substance for the first time with my large crowd of festival goers, it felt like I was walking out of a concert. Adrenaline pumping, blood racing. I rush home to try and get some kind of thoughts out, anything at all, wanting to tell…
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Film Review: Sharp Corner
By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation Within it’s first 10 minutes, Sharp Corner opens with a literal bang. A botched quickie in a new home is turned suddenly violent as a car veers out of control and crashes into our lead’s newly bought house – or more specifically it’s tree. It’s a literal climax that stops…
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Film Review: Maria
By Matthew Moorcroft Weak Recommendation Pablo Larrain’s trilogy of women centric stories (unofficially and unwiedly called “Trilogy of important 20th century women”) is mostly defined by two very key ingredients. Firstly, each film is less of a straight up biopic and more of a tone poem, highly interested in replicating a particular feeling or emotion…
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Film Review: Flow
By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation The best way to describe Flow, a new ambitious animated feature from Latvian director Gints Zibalodis, is that of “tech demo”. This isn’t necessarily a good or bad thing (though to some it may seem like faint praise), but as an animated film made entirely through open source software –…
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Film Review: The Count of Monte Cristo
By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation One of the most adapted and beloved books of the 19th century, we are graced with yet another adaptation of The Count of Monte Cristo. This time, it comes courtesy of Matthieu Delaporte and Alexandre de La Patellière, who previously scripted a two-part adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’ other beloved classic…
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Film Review: Black Box Diaries
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation CW: Contains frank discussions about sexual assault A documentary 6 years in the making, Black Box Diaries initially functions as a day by day account of Shiori Ito’s fight and case in her own sexual assault, which on it’s own is an impressive feat. Ito’s fight for recognition and some…
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