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Film Review: My Dad’s Tapes
By Matthew Moorcroft Solid Recommendation My Dad’s Tapes is a difficult work to review because I’m not really sure it’s meant to be “reviewed” in the traditional sense. It would frankly be like reviewing or critiquing somebody’s own personal emotional therapy or the old home movies one made to escape from reality; it’s one thing…
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Film Review: Seeking Mavis Beacon
By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation When do we decide to be remembered? In the digital age this is a question that becomes more and more relevant with each passing day as technology becomes more powerful and easier to access. Digital footprints left behind by those long past are still available to see, for better and…
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Film Review: My Hero Academia: You’re Next
By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation There used to be a time in anime history where the long running shonen series would get movies almost on the yearly, and while the industry is currently in a position where that’s mostly unsustainable, My Hero Academia is certainly damn well going to try. While You’re Next, the latest…
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Film Review: Joker: Folie à Deux
By Matthew Moorcroft No Recommendation Does Todd Phillips feel like J. Robert Oppenheimer? Does he regret his own creation? It very much seems that way if Joker: Folie à Deux is to be believed, who opens up with an animated sequence that sets up much of the story and conflict of said sequel. This animated…
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Film Review: Transformers One
By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation Despite it’s origins in animation, it’s taken nearly 40 years for Transformers to return to the big screen in the format that initially made them famous in the first place. After floudering around for 16 years in live action films whose quality ranged from great (Bumblebee) to terrible (basically any…
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Film Review: Deadpool & Wolverine
By Matthew Moorcroft Solid Recommendation Sorry guys. I think it’s easy to be cynical about something like Deadpool & Wolverine, and I don’t blame anyone who is. Even beyond the nature of bringing back Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine – a character believed to have been retired, dead, and buried – there the multiversal stuff and standard…
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Film Review: Twisters
By Matthew Moorcroft Solid Recommendation The belated sequel to the 1996 disaster B-movie classic – though sequel could be something a stretch considering how little it has to do with said prior installment – opens with, what else, a tornado sequence for the ages. An EF5 tornado appears and swallows up our lead and her…
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Film Review: Inside Out 2
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation The Inside Out films are kind of a weird anomaly within western animation. Even for Pixar, the films which focus on the personifications of emotions within the mind of a young girl, are more sophisticated and nuanced then some adult films releasing nowadays; the closest things to animated character studies…
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Film Review: Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation How do you follow up Fury Road? A sane person would tell you that you don’t. The once in a lifetime action picture that sweeped the technical Oscars and is a fan favourite among many a cinephile and action buff isn’t something you top. Everything else you make will forever…
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Film Review: Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation Pretty wild in retrospect that the new Planet of the Apes films, which started on a whim thanks to a modestly budgeted semi-prequel, semi-reimagining turned reboot afterwards 13 years ago, have become some of the most respected tentpoles in modern cinema. It’s not surprising if you think about it for…
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