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Film Review: Backrooms
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation Directed by Kane Parsons Starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Renate Reinsve, Mark Duplass, Finn Bennett R 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…
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Film Review: Passenger
By Matthew Moorcroft Unsure Directed by Andre Øvredal Starring Jacob Scipio, Lou Llobell, Melissa Leo, Joseph Lopez R 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…
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Film Review: The Mandalorian and Grogu
By Matthew Moorcroft No Recommendation Directed by Jon Favreau Starring Pedro Pascal, Jeremy Allen White, Brendan Wayne, Sigourney Weaver PG-13 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.…
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Film Review: Is God Is
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation Directed by Aleshea Harris Starring Kara Young, Mallori Johnson, Janelle Monáe, Sterling K. Brown R 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…
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Film Review: The Sheep Detectives
By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation Directed by Kyle Balda Starring Hugh Jackman, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Nicholas Braun, Bryan Cranston PG 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…
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Film Review: Obsession
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation Directed by Curry Barker Starring Michael Johnston, Inde Navarrette, Cooper Tomlinson, Megan Lawless R 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…
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Film Review: Mortal Kombat II
By Matthew Moorcroft Weak Recommendation Directed by Simon McQuiod Starring Karl Urban, Adeline Rudolph, Ludi Lin, Hiroyuki Sanada R 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,…
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Film Review: Hokum
By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation Directed by Damian McCarthy Starring Adam Scott, Peter Coonan, David Wilmot, Florence Ordesh R As early as five minutes in, Hokum is already going for the jugular. To some, jump scares are an easy tactic, but to somebody like Damian McCarthy it’s clear that it can also be an artform…
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Film Review: Mother Mary
By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation Directed by David Lowery Starring Anne Hathaway, Michaela Coel, Hunter Schafer, FKA Twigs R Playing into the metaphysical and poetic, Mother Mary is exactly the kind of film that you would expect David Lowery to make. At his core, Lowery is a filmmaker that plays into emotion and vibes first…
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Film Review: Lee Cronin’s The Mummy
By Matthew Moorcroft Solid Recommendation Directed by Lee Cronin Starring Jack Reynor, Laia Costa, May Calamawy, Natalie Grace R Almost as nasty as an actual decaying corpse, Lee Cronin’s The Mummy, which is indeed the full title, revels in it’s gruesome horror. Less overtly scary and more focused on being as disgusting and gross as…
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