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Film Review: The End of Oak Street
By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation Oak Street is on the verge of destruction. Or at least, the Platt family home is, who is currently in the midst of a parental squabble that is about to boil over into resentment that’s affecting everyone else around them. It only takes about 15 minutes in movie time however…
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Film Review: Spider-Man: Brand New Day
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation Is Spider-Man ever allowed a chance at happiness? While this is eternal question of most great Spidey stories, the fantastic – and surprisingly thoughtful – Spider-Man: Brand New Day is the first take on the character in some time that actively frames that as it’s main thematic question. After the…
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Film Review: The Odyssey
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation At what point do we earn forgiveness for the sins we have wraught? This is arguably the question that has permeated the entirety of Christopher Nolan’s career, who has spent two decades examining and reexamining the ways that flawed men try to atone what they perceive to be their greatest…
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Film Review: Evil Dead Burn
By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation Pushing boundaries of good taste has always been the modus operandi of the Evil Dead series, one of horror’s most consistently entertaining and well designed machines. Even as far back as the original film, which was labeled as a “video nasty” in the days of the moral panic behind films…
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Film Review: The Invite
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation An awkward and consistently insightful sex comedy about the perils of relationships and marriage, The Invite immediately has an air of tension right as Seth Rogen’s Joe enters the home. With a bad back, a miserable outlook on his job, and a proclivity to mask his own insecurities with humor…
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Film Review: Minions & Monsters
By Matthew Moorcroft Solid Recommendation While their appeal may have diminished overtime, one forgets there was a time when the Minions, the yellow pill shaped creatures that are Illumination’s mascots (and the bane of certain parents’ existence), once actually were somewhat appealing. The original Despicable Me isn’t a perfect movie by any means, in fact…
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Film Review: Leviticus
By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation Seduction and the fear of desire are something that are intrinsically linked in horror and have been for some time. While the reasons are mostly socially – mainly the advent of puritan culture and conservatism in regards to sexuality – it has meant that horror has always that seductive background…
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Film Review: Supergirl
By Matthew Moorcroft Unsure In true DC fashion, Supergirl is a bit of a strange oddity. You would think that years after the fact that DC Studios, having seen first hand the implosion of the original DCEU and the general healthy skepticism towards new superhero fare that general audiences have maintained post-Endgame, would learn from…
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Film Review: Toy Story 5
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation Like all of the nigh-perfect entries in the series that came before it, Toy Story 5 plays as equally if not more to the adults in the audience as it does the children it’s supposedly aimed. In the case of prior films, those extended to it’s existential questions about the…
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Film Review: The Furious
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