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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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Film Review: Paddington in Peru
By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation It’s been over a decade since the release of the original Paddington film, and in that time both it and it’s sequel have become something of a sacred ground for modern children’s films. While so much of this is rightly attributed to director Paul King and his whimsical vision for…
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Film Review: Captain America: Brave New World
By Matthew Moorcroft Unsure It really feels like Captain America: Brave New World has come out like at least like five times already. The long gestating project, subject to numerous reshoots, a writers and actors strike, and story changes in the midst of an ever-evolving political landscape, feels like a movie that was always on…
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Film Review: Companion
By Matthew Moorcroft Solid Recommendation While it’s reputation as a dumping ground hasn’t been completely unfounded, in recent years January has slowly but surely also developed a reputation for putting stranger, more out there affairs for studios who may not be confident in their overall success. Just two years ago saw the release of M3GAN…
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Film Review: The Brutalist
By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation Made for only $9.6 million, The Brutalist feels like a towering feat. It is in itself a statement; a huge, monumental picture that feels huge and monumental while only using a fraction of the resources that is normally given to a feature like this. Very fitting that a film about…
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Film Review: Wicked
By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation Getting a Wicked movie always felt like something of a weird pipedream. Seemingly in development for a decade and talked about for even longer, by the time it got to our movie screens it almost feels like a nostalgia property rather then a hot of the Broadway ticket adaptation that…
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Film Review: Better Man
By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation Like a lot of non-European folks, I was mostly unfamiliar with Robbie Williams prior to this film, which shouldn’t come as much of a surprise. While Take That was a musical staple in the UK, their success never truly translated to the US, and because of that despite Robbie Williams…
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Film Review: Nosferatu
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation Early in Nosferatu, our leading man Thomas finds himself at a literal crossroads waiting for a carriage that will take him to his next client – the mysterious and reclusive Count Orlok, who lives in Transylvania alone and has “one foot in the grave” so to speak. The night is…
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Film Review: A Complete Unknown
By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation In 2005, director James Mangold released Walk the Line, a biopic on legendary singer and artist Johnny Cash. While many a music biopic have come and gone these days, Walk the Line is in a lot of ways the prototype for the type of film that most have come to…
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