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Film Review: Concrete Utopia
By Matthew Moorcroft Solid Recommendation I find myself at a crossroads with Concrete Utopia. So much disaster media is focused on the actual end rather then the aftermath or the people that are affected by it that I find myself drawn Concrete Utopia‘s depiction of a post-disaster society immediately enthralling. And to Concrete Utopia‘s credit,…
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Film Review: The Blue Caftan
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation You can tell that Halim is closeted pretty early on. The explicit confirmation you do get after the fact is only really there to help confirm it to you, but eagle viewers will pick up on the small things almost immediately; the way he looks at his apprentice, the sad…
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Film Review: Lead and Copper
By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation Without doxxing my location, I live close to Flint, Michigan, so the water crisis that was unveiled in 2014 and still somewhat transpires to this day is something that hit close to home in more ways then one. Outside of simply being one of those stories too absurd to believe…
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Film Review: Monster
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation Last year, I reviewed the film Broker, a film that I found to be very good if a little undercooked in terms of it’s thematic meat. While Kore-eda is a beloved filmmaker and I don’t doubt his strong reputation among critics, Broker, while definitely worth watching, didn’t leave me wowed…
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Film Review: Evil Does Not Exist
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation Once upon a time, there was a village. Evil Does Not Exist takes place in this village, a village that almost seems like it’s from another time period. As the film begins, gazing up at the sky through the barren trees of winter, we see the slow, yet methodical, everyday…
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Film Review: Daliland
By Matthew Moorcroft Screw This Watching Daliland is a bizarre experience, something that on paper should frankly be fitting for a movie that is seemingly about Salvador Dali. After all, the man was notoriously one of the weirdest men alive during his time, so a film that gets weird and out there with it’s content…
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Film Review: About Dry Grasses
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation WARNING: THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR ABOUT DRY GRASSES, MAINLY IN THE THIRD ACT. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED. Some disclosure – the onslaught of reviews that have hit over the past month or so have all been on backlog post-festival, and while I tried to get as many out quickly as…
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Film Review: American Fiction
By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation When Monk sits down to write his joke of a “book”, or at least what he considers a joke of one, perspective switches. What was initially a simple dialogue heavy dramedy goes meta, seeing an almost live performance of the book that is being written in real time – warts…
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Film Review: Foe
By Matthew Moorcroft No Recommendation …Well, at least the leads are hot. Foe, the latest from attempted auteur Garth Davis, begins with a premise that, at least, seems tantalizing to say the least – a future that feels dystopian and all too real, humanity leaving for parts unknown, and rural areas are entirely gone save…
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Film Review: Blackberry
By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation Like all of the great tech stories, there is something to be said about the spectacular quick rise – and almost historically quick demise – of the Blackberry, at one point the most popular phone in the world and one of the most sought after tech devices on the planet.…
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