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Film Review: Wicked: For Good
By Matthew Moorcroft Weak Recommendation The biggest challenge of adapting Wicked was always going to that pesky second act, wasn’t it? I’m not really sure how to review or look at Wicked: For Good (which should really be called Wicked: Part II frankly but that’s neither here nor there), which is a film that ultimately…
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Film Review: The Running Man
By Matthew Moorcroft Weak Recommendation Taking another stab at adapting one of Stephen King’s most provocative novels, The Running Man takes it’s title almost entirely literally as it hits the ground at top speed and never really slows down for a minute. It makes sense then that Edgar Wright – a director known for his…
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Film Review: Bugonia
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation The master of uncomfortable cinema returning for another round, Yorgos Lanthimos’ gleefully dark and cynical Bugonia opens with a long discussion about the nature of the honeybee worker. Jesse Plemons’ Teddy, who is the focus of the picture, describes honeybees and their service to their queen and how they function…
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Film Review: If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation The bleakly funny and overtly stressful – almost painfully so – If I Had Legs I’d Kick You starts with a flooding, both metaphorically and literally. Literally in that Linda, the at her wit’s end mother and therapist trying to balance having a sick kid, an out of touch husband,…
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Film Review: The Secret Agent
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation I have spent a lot of time mulling over The Secret Agent. Out of all the films I saw at WIFF this year, it’s the one that has most intrigued me from both a technical and analytical perspective. It’s not my first rodeo with Brazilian cinema – far from it…
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Film Review: Cloud
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…
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Film Review: Sentimental Value
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…
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Film Review: No Other Choice
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…
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Film Review: Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc
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…
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Film Review: Frankenstein
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…
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