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Film Review: All You Need is Kill
By Matthew Moorcroft Solid Recommendation The second film adaptation of the Japanese novel, All You Need is Kill is in a strange scenario that doesn’t happen often in the medium – specifically that of the American version being the first one out of the gate. Having previously been adapted as the great Tom Cruise vehicle…
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Film Review: Primate
By Matthew Moorcroft Solid Recommendation 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) and his loving family is now the target of his aggression. And if you know…
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Film Review: Marty Supreme
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Film Review: Wake Up Dead Man
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation 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 biggest swerve of them yet, removing itself from the class critiques of the prior…
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Film Review: Avatar: Fire and Ash
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation 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: Fire and Ash. James Cameron has always been as ambitious and intense of a…
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Film Review: Wicked: For Good
By Matthew Moorcroft Weak Recommendation 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: Part II frankly but that’s neither here nor there), which is a film that ultimately…
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Film Review: The Running Man
By Matthew Moorcroft Weak Recommendation 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 minute. It makes sense then that Edgar Wright – a director known for his…
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Film Review: Bugonia
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation 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 the picture, describes honeybees and their service to their queen and how they function…
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Film Review: If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation 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 and therapist trying to balance having a sick kid, an out of touch husband,…
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Film Review: The Secret Agent
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