By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation At what point do we earn forgiveness for the sins we have wraught? This is arguably the question that has permeated the entirety of Christopher Nolan’s career, who has spent two decades examining and reexamining the ways that flawed men try to atone what they perceive to be their greatest…
By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation Pushing boundaries of good taste has always been the modus operandi of the Evil Dead series, one of horror’s most consistently entertaining and well designed machines. Even as far back as the original film, which was labeled as a “video nasty” in the days of the moral panic behind films…
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation An awkward and consistently insightful sex comedy about the perils of relationships and marriage, The Invite immediately has an air of tension right as Seth Rogen’s Joe enters the home. With a bad back, a miserable outlook on his job, and a proclivity to mask his own insecurities with humor…
By Matthew Moorcroft Solid Recommendation While their appeal may have diminished overtime, one forgets there was a time when the Minions, the yellow pill shaped creatures that are Illumination’s mascots (and the bane of certain parents’ existence), once actually were somewhat appealing. The original Despicable Me isn’t a perfect movie by any means, in fact…
By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation Seduction and the fear of desire are something that are intrinsically linked in horror and have been for some time. While the reasons are mostly socially – mainly the advent of puritan culture and conservatism in regards to sexuality – it has meant that horror has always that seductive background…
By Matthew Moorcroft Unsure In true DC fashion, Supergirl is a bit of a strange oddity. You would think that years after the fact that DC Studios, having seen first hand the implosion of the original DCEU and the general healthy skepticism towards new superhero fare that general audiences have maintained post-Endgame, would learn from…
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation Like all of the nigh-perfect entries in the series that came before it, Toy Story 5 plays as equally if not more to the adults in the audience as it does the children it’s supposedly aimed. In the case of prior films, those extended to it’s existential questions about the…
By Matthew Moorcroft CONTENT WARNING: This editorial discusses themes of suicide and trans dysphoria. In the 1983 body horror classic Videodrome, our lead character Max Renn, the CEO of TV station, continually finds himself being transformed and morphed into a being that is not himself. Starting with the psychological, with him slowly but surely having…
By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation An apt title for a movie whose main energy is always at a thousand percent, The Furious feels like the second coming of Christ if you are a martial arts flick kind of guy. Ever since the late 90s, Hong Kong action cinema has been around but it has lacked…
By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation Launching you straight into a conspiracy thriller where the ultimate question is less about what the conspiracy and more about the aftershocks, Disclosure Day is Spielberg, in some ways, returning to old ground. This isn’t his first rodeo with aliens, let alone ones where the entire premise is built on…
By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation When it comes to Boots Riley as a filmmaker, you both know what you are getting yourself into while also have no idea what to expect. The prolific artist who has run the gambit from hip hop to film to political activism has a unique voice that, try as people…
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation In a year where horror has proven to be dominated the young, the youngest may have saved the best for last with Backrooms. At only 19 years old, Kane Parsons is a newcomer who has been given the once in a lifetime opportunity to adapt his own work to the…
By Matthew Moorcroft Unsure Smushed between two major horror releases as well as a major blockbuster release, Passenger would feel doomed if it wasn’t for it’s viral (and genuinely impressive) theater only teaser from several months ago that made audiences squirm and jump in their seats. It’s a testament to the power of marketing that…
By Matthew Moorcroft No Recommendation The fact this doesn’t even have the “A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away…” intro card should be red flag number one. It’s impossible for me to be rational with Star Wars. Most other franchises I can keep myself at least at an arm’s distance and be…
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation When you have nobody else, it becomes difficult to feel anything else other then rage at the rest of the world. Thus is the life of the twins Racine and Anaia, two women whose bodies are permanently scarred and burned due to an abusive father who set their own mother…
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