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Category: Movie Reviews

  • Film Review: The Furious

    Film Review: The Furious

    By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation An apt title for a movie whose main energy is always at a thousand percent, The Furious feels like the second coming of Christ if you are a martial arts flick kind of guy. Ever since the late 90s, Hong Kong action cinema has been around but it has lacked…

  • Film Review: Disclosure Day

    Film Review: Disclosure Day

    By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation Launching you straight into a conspiracy thriller where the ultimate question is less about what the conspiracy and more about the aftershocks, Disclosure Day is Spielberg, in some ways, returning to old ground. This isn’t his first rodeo with aliens, let alone ones where the entire premise is built on…

  • Film Review: I Love Boosters

    Film Review: I Love Boosters

    By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation When it comes to Boots Riley as a filmmaker, you both know what you are getting yourself into while also have no idea what to expect. The prolific artist who has run the gambit from hip hop to film to political activism has a unique voice that, try as people…

  • Film Review: Backrooms

    Film Review: Backrooms

    By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation In a year where horror has proven to be dominated the young, the youngest may have saved the best for last with Backrooms. At only 19 years old, Kane Parsons is a newcomer who has been given the once in a lifetime opportunity to adapt his own work to the…

  • Film Review: Passenger

    Film Review: Passenger

    By Matthew Moorcroft Unsure Smushed between two major horror releases as well as a major blockbuster release, Passenger would feel doomed if it wasn’t for it’s viral (and genuinely impressive) theater only teaser from several months ago that made audiences squirm and jump in their seats. It’s a testament to the power of marketing that…

  • Film Review: The Mandalorian and Grogu

    Film Review: The Mandalorian and Grogu

    By Matthew Moorcroft No Recommendation The fact this doesn’t even have the “A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away…” intro card should be red flag number one. It’s impossible for me to be rational with Star Wars. Most other franchises I can keep myself at least at an arm’s distance and be…

  • Film Review: Is God Is

    Film Review: Is God Is

    By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation When you have nobody else, it becomes difficult to feel anything else other then rage at the rest of the world. Thus is the life of the twins Racine and Anaia, two women whose bodies are permanently scarred and burned due to an abusive father who set their own mother…

  • Film Review: The Sheep Detectives

    Film Review: The Sheep Detectives

    By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation Don’t let it’s poor marketing and Mad Libs style premise fool you – The Sheep Detectives is the kind of family film that one wishes we still got on a regular basis. Mixing the modern whodunnit stylings of Knives Out with the tone and whismy of Babe, and also a…

  • Film Review: Obsession

    Film Review: Obsession

    By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation Feeling like something of a minor miracle in theaters, Obsession is yet another of the many horror films of the past several years brought to us by online talent turned professional filmmaker. It’s becoming increasingly clear at this point that, with the advent of the digital space, the next big…

  • Film Review: Mortal Kombat II

    Film Review: Mortal Kombat II

    By Matthew Moorcroft Weak Recommendation Once again, I am probably being far too kind to this. I don’t think anybody is under the assumption that Mortal Kombat II is going to be some level of high art. It is, after all, a movie where two of it’s major players is a woman whose weapon of…