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Film Review: Joker: Folie à Deux
By Matthew Moorcroft No Recommendation Does Todd Phillips feel like J. Robert Oppenheimer? Does he regret his own creation? It very much seems that way if Joker: Folie à Deux is to be believed, who opens up with an animated sequence that sets up much of the story and conflict of said sequel. This animated…
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Film Review: Transformers One
By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation Despite it’s origins in animation, it’s taken nearly 40 years for Transformers to return to the big screen in the format that initially made them famous in the first place. After floudering around for 16 years in live action films whose quality ranged from great (Bumblebee) to terrible (basically any…
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Film Review: Deadpool & Wolverine
By Matthew Moorcroft Solid Recommendation Sorry guys. I think it’s easy to be cynical about something like Deadpool & Wolverine, and I don’t blame anyone who is. Even beyond the nature of bringing back Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine – a character believed to have been retired, dead, and buried – there the multiversal stuff and standard…
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Film Review: Twisters
By Matthew Moorcroft Solid Recommendation The belated sequel to the 1996 disaster B-movie classic – though sequel could be something a stretch considering how little it has to do with said prior installment – opens with, what else, a tornado sequence for the ages. An EF5 tornado appears and swallows up our lead and her…
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Film Review: Inside Out 2
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation The Inside Out films are kind of a weird anomaly within western animation. Even for Pixar, the films which focus on the personifications of emotions within the mind of a young girl, are more sophisticated and nuanced then some adult films releasing nowadays; the closest things to animated character studies…
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Film Review: Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation How do you follow up Fury Road? A sane person would tell you that you don’t. The once in a lifetime action picture that sweeped the technical Oscars and is a fan favourite among many a cinephile and action buff isn’t something you top. Everything else you make will forever…
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Film Review: Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation Pretty wild in retrospect that the new Planet of the Apes films, which started on a whim thanks to a modestly budgeted semi-prequel, semi-reimagining turned reboot afterwards 13 years ago, have become some of the most respected tentpoles in modern cinema. It’s not surprising if you think about it for…
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Film Review: Spy x Family Code: White
By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation The delightfully silly antics of the Forger family, anime’s newest pop culture icons, is difficult to describe to non-fans or those unfamiliar with the series. The unassumingly complex premise – which involves two characters who don’t know a thing about each other, one who knows everything, and a dog who…
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Film Review: Kung Fu Panda 4
By Matthew Moorcroft Solid Recommendation It’s been 16 years since the original Kung Fu Panda dropped in 2008. The surprise box office smash and critical darling was almost as important as the moving parts behind the scenes during it’s production. DreamWorks, hiding high off of the success of the Shrek franchise and several other high…
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Film Review: Dune: Part Two
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