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Film Review: Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
By Matthew Moorcroft Solid Recommendation At the start of The Final Reckoning, humanity is a crisis. Marshall law is in effect, the nuclear weapon systems of several major nations are hacked into, and a doomsday cult following the The Entity, the major AI villain from the last Mission: Impossible film, has infiltrated every layer of…
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Film Review: The Phoenician Scheme
By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation It’s not everyday that Wes Anderson begins his movies with a literal bang, but The Phoenician Scheme certainly does, as Benecio del Toro’s Zsa-Zsa Korda finds himself plummeting to Earth in a burning wreckage of a plane after an assassination attempt. It doesn’t work, obviously, but it does leave Zsa-Zsa…
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Film Review: Ballerina
By Matthew Moorcroft Solid Recommendation What is the real appeal of the John Wick films? Is it the action sequences, which are meticulously crafted by franchise overseerer and director Chad Stahelski? Is Keanu himself, his unique screen presence giving the franchise it’s own interesting energy? Or is it the mythology, which feels like a living…
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Film Review: Dan Da Dan: Evil Eye
By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation Led by phenomenally creative animation and a wildly creative – if raunchy – setup, Dan Da Dan was the anime to beat in 2024. Coming at a time of seeming stagnation in the shonen sphere, it was a breath of fresh air whose B-movie influences mixed in with wacky, surrealist…
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Film Review: Colorful Stage! The Movie: A Miku Who Can’t Sing
By Matthew Moorcroft Weak Recommendation Colorful Stage! The Movie: A Miku Who Can’t Sing is, just like it’s long-winded title implies, a movie. It has three acts, it has characters with some semblance of personality, a clear thesis statement about it’s themes and ideas, and it even has something of a character arc for it’s…
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Film Review: Thunderbolts*
By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation At this point, it’s becoming more common to view each MCU installment as a self-reflexive, meta-textual comment on it’s own existence rather then a standalone picture in it’s own right. As frustrating as it is that these can’t just be their own right, Thunderbolts* (yes the asterisk is part of…
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Film Review: Sinners
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation Laced with immediate texture in it’s 65mm frames and gorgeous southern locales, Sinners – the first non-franchise film from Ryan Coogler since his stellar debut in 2013 – is the rare film that makes it’s first impressions strong and stays strong throughout it’s entire runtime. Just like the blues that…
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Film Review: Mickey 17
By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation Finally arriving after several lengthy delays, Mickey 17 could not have been more timely. I don’t know how much it predicted much of the current political climate – likely none of intentionally, as it was written and shot long before the 2024 US elections as well as much of the…
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Film Review: Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX: Beginning
By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation WARNING: THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR GQUUUUUUX INVOLVING PLOT POINTS THAT ARE NOT PRESENT IN THE ORIGINAL MARKETING. PLEASE READ AT YOUR OWN PERIL. We are going into the tail end of Gundam‘s 4th decade of being one of the biggest pop culture juggernauts out of Japan, and in the…
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Film Review: The Monkey
By Matthew Moorcroft Solid Recommendation There are two kinds of horror films. This statement is hyperbole, obviously, but for the sake of the argument, there are two; your Rube Goldberg machines and your simple calculators. The latter are ones that focus in on a singular idea through either complicated means or slow builds that are…
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