By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation Kiyoshi Kurosawa really doesn’t like the internet. As far back as the late 90s Kuorsawa has tapped into his own personal fears about what it’s like to live away from people, attached to too much technology and not enough attachment to the people around us. And while he hasn’t really…
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation Families are complicated. The latest from Joachim Trier, fresh off of international acclaim with the absolutely sublime The Worst Person in the World, directly confronts those complicated families with the level of panache and attunement that we see from him on a regular basis. And what is more complicated then…
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation Wired like the best built moustraps just waiting to ensnare you in it’s grasp, No Other Choice is maybe the most Park Chan-wook movie ever made in a long line of Park Chan-wook films. With every trademark here – brief bursts of gory violence, pitch black comedy, and impressively jaw-dropping…
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation There is a moment early on in Reze Arc, the feature length sequel to one of the most popular anime of the past decade, where our lead Denji – fresh off his defeat of one of his toughest foes yet in Katana Man – goes to the movies with his…
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation At this point, it’s easy to call every single Guillermo del Toro film a passion project. If there is one thing consistent about him as a filmmaker, it’s that his personal interests and what kinds of films he wants to make intertwine so seamlessly that you can almost predict what…
By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation A heist film is not exactly the thing you would expect from Kelly Reichardt on first glance. The slow cinema auteur known for her meticulously and lesiurely paced stories is, on paper, the anti-crime movie filmmaker; not nearly energetic enough to allow for the high intensity needed for a film…
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