Category: TV Reviews

  • TV Review: Obi-Wan Kenobi, Episodes 3-4

    TV Review: Obi-Wan Kenobi, Episodes 3-4

    By Matthew Moorcroft Part III – Strong RecommendationPart IV – Solid Recommendation Directed by Deborah Chow Starring Ewan McGregor, Moses Ingram, Vivian Lyra Blair, Hayden Christensen TV-14 Star Wars has a Vader problem. This is less so an indictment against the character, far from it. I enjoy his presence well enough and when he’s done…

  • TV Review: Obi-Wan Kenobi, Episodes 1-2

    TV Review: Obi-Wan Kenobi, Episodes 1-2

    By Matthew Moorcroft Part I – Strong RecommendationPart II – Strong Recommendation Directed by Deborah Chow Starring Ewan McGregor, Rupert Friend, Moses Ingram, Vivien Lyra Blair TV-14 I’ll be the first to admit that Star Wars hasn’t exactly impressed me as of late. Sure there has been some episodes of The Mandalorian that were strong…

  • TV Review: Arcane Season 1, Episodes 7-9

    TV Review: Arcane Season 1, Episodes 7-9

    By Matthew Moorcroft Episode 7 (The Boy Saviour) – Highest RecommendationEpisode 8 (Oil and Water) – Highest RecommendationEpisode 9 (The Monster You Created) – Highest Recommendation Directed by Pascal Charrue & Arnaud Delord Starring Hailee Steinfeld, Ella Purnell, Kevin Alejandro, Katie Leung TV-14 When Ekko first shows himself again after an entire act of disappearance,…

  • TV Review: Arcane Season 1, Episodes 4-6

    TV Review: Arcane Season 1, Episodes 4-6

    By Matthew Moorcroft Episode 4 (Happy Progress Day!) – Highest RecommendationEpisode 5 (Everybody Wants to Be My Enemy) – Highest RecommendationEpisode 6 (When These Walls Come Tumbling Down) – Highest Recommendation Directed by Pascal Charrue & Arnaud Delord Starring Hailee Steinfeld, Ella Purnell, Kevin Alejandro, Katie Leung TV-14 Progress is a bitch, isn’t it? I…

  • TV Review: Moon Knight, Episode 6

    TV Review: Moon Knight, Episode 6

    By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation Directed by Mohamed Diab Starring Oscar Isaac, May Calamawy, F. Murray Abraham, Ethan Hawke TV-14 And thus another MCU Disney+ series comes to a close, and it’s once again time for people to ask “did this really need to be a show?”. The answer isn’t exactly as black and white…

  • TV Review: Arcane Season 1, Episodes 1-3

    TV Review: Arcane Season 1, Episodes 1-3

    By Matthew Moorcroft Episode 1 (Welcome to the Playground) – Strong RecommendationEpisode 2 (Some Mysteries Are Better Left Unsolved) – Strong RecommendationEpisode 3 (The Base Violence Necessary For Change) – Highest Recommendation Directed by Pascal Charrue and Arnaud Delord Starring Hailee Steinfeld, Mia Sinclair Jenness, Kevin Alejandro, JB Blanc TV-14 So I think we are…

  • TV Review: Moon Knight, Episode 5

    TV Review: Moon Knight, Episode 5

    By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation Directed by Mohamed Diab Starring Oscar Isaac, May Calamawy, F. Murray Abraham, Ethan Hawke TV-14 At both it’s height and it’s lowest, the MCU has mostly stayed on the course of being tame in much of it’s content – well, variably. It’s flirted with darkness before and Phase 4’s output…

  • TV Review: Moon Knight, Episodes 3-4

    TV Review: Moon Knight, Episodes 3-4

    By Matthew Moorcroft Episode 3 (The Friendly Type) – Strong RecommendationEpisode 4 (The Tomb) – Strong Recommendation Directed by Mohamed Diab (Episode 3), Aaron Moorhead & Justin Benson (Episode 4) Starring Oscar Isaac, May Calamawy, F. Murray Abraham, Ethan Hawke TV-14 It’s been a good while since we’ve gotten a good treasure hunting movie, hasn’t…

  • TV Review: Moon Knight, Episodes 1-2

    TV Review: Moon Knight, Episodes 1-2

    by Matthew Moorcroft Episode 1 (The Goldfish Problem) – Strong RecommendationEpisode 2 (Summon the Suit) – Strong Recommendation Directed by Mohamed Diab (Episode 1), Aaron Moorhead & Justin Benson (Episode 2) Starring Oscar Isaac, May Calamawy, F. Murray Abraham, Ethan Hawke TV-14 It’s actually a little shocking that it’s taken this long for Moon Knight,…