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Category: Movie Reviews

  • Film Review: Project Hail Mary

    Film Review: Project Hail Mary

    By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation The Earth is dying. Something is dimming the sun, and we only have 30 years to really prevent it or things are going to get bad really fast. Project Hail Mary, as a film, isn’t about climate change but it certainly feels like it in some ways; a film about…

  • Film Review: The Bride!

    Film Review: The Bride!

    By Matthew Moorcroft Unsure Bursting onto the frame with a loud, overwhelming jolt to the senses not unsimiliar to the very lightning bolt that brought Frankenstein’s monster to life years and years ago, The Bride! is almost as unwieldy and impossible to quantify as said monster as well. It’s the stitched together, falling apart at…

  • Film Review: Undertone

    Film Review: Undertone

    By Matthew Moorcroft Weak Recommendation One of the canon rules of horror is that usually what you don’t see is scarier then what you do see. Undertone, with it’s focus on auditory horror and a sole lead actor on screen for the entire runtime, feels like the ultimate test of that canon rule. With almost…

  • Film Review: Hoppers

    Film Review: Hoppers

    By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation It doesn’t take long to realize that Hoppers is the real deal from Pixar. Probably the studio that has struggled the most post-pandemic, small success stories like Elemental and big blockbuster hits like Inside Out 2 have managed to keep them in the conversation as their major projects, regardless of…

  • Film Review: Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die

    Film Review: Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die

    By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation Maybe one of the few working directors who can actually earn the “from the twisted mind” phrase in his marketing, Gore Verbinski returns after a 9 year hiatus after audience soundly rejected the wildly underrated – and exceptionally bizarre – A Cure for Wellness and sent Verbinski into director’s jail.…

  • Film Review: Iron Lung

    Film Review: Iron Lung

    By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation Made on a small budget of $3 million or less, Iron Lung is something of a minor miracle in the fact that it’s even good in the first place. Mark Fischbach – better known as Markiplier both online and to his fans – isn’t necessarily a newcomer to horror or…

  • Film Review: Send Help

    Film Review: Send Help

    By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation It’s been a long time since a full blown, true Sam Raimi flick hasn’t there? Sure, he’s made a couple of blockbusters like the scattershot if entertaining Oz the Great and Powerful and the wildly misunderstood Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, but when it comes to the horror…

  • Film Review: Arco

    Film Review: Arco

    By Matthew Moorcroft Solid Recommendation As animated films go, Arco is as animated as they come. Quite literally, in fact, as the rainbow colors that adorn it’s title character leap off the screen and feel simply just made for the animated medium. You simply just can’t tell a story like this in live action, and…

  • Film Review: Hamnet

    Film Review: Hamnet

    By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation In some ways a return to form for acclaimed indie filmmaker Chloe Zhao in terms of subject matter, Hamnet is positioned on the surface as a much deserved victory lap film after her Best Picture winning Nomadland swept audiences away and her divisive MCU flick Eternals confused those same audiences…

  • Film Review: Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie

    Film Review: Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie

    By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation Arguably the first movie to have Toronto be a main character in it’s own right, Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie begins with a stunt so ludicrous and insane that you would think that they would save it for later on in the film as the big show stopper…