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Film Review: Barbie
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation This piece was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, the film being covered here wouldn’t exist. It’s actually interesting that it’s taken this long for a live action Barbie film to come out. The long gestating brand,…
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Film Review: Oppenheimer
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation This piece was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, the film being covered here wouldn’t exist. The year is 1945. Germany has surrendered in the wake of Hitler’s suicide and now only Japan is at war with…
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Film Review: Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation The movie industry is in grave danger. Or at the very least, that’s what Tom Cruise believes, considering he’s spent the 12+ years or so trying to redefine the cinematic experience as we know it. Beyond his stunts that have earned him a reputation as a madman, his big push…
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Film Review: Nimona
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation It’s a goddamn miracle Nimona even exists. One of the final films developed by Blue Sky Studios before the company was unceremoniously shut down by Disney as part of the 20th Century Fox acquisition, Nimona seemed to be destined as one of those legendary, unmade animated films left to history.…
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Film Review: Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
By Matthew Moorcroft Solid Recommendation Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny is a conundrum of a movie. It’s very existence is something I feel like will be discussed far more then the actual contents of the picture itself, as will the lack of Spielberg and Lucas involved in it’s production outside of executive producer…
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Film Review: The Flash
By Matthew Moorcroft Screw This When I was a kid, there were three superheroes that I really connected to instantly. Spider-Man, Batman, and The Flash. The former two were mainly through movies; Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man and Tim Burton’s Batman being some of my earliest memories of watching, and falling in love with, movies. But it…
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Film Review: Elemental
By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation Pixar has had it rough the past couple of years haven’t they? Not necessarily entirely their fault though – there was a global pandemic that happened and moreso then any other genre family animation got crippled. And it couldn’t have happened at a worse time for the company, who were…
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Film Review: Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
By Matthew Moorcroft Solid Recommendation In 1996, Beast Wars: Transformers hit television screens to divisive reception from old school fans and mostly non-existent critical attention. The series, meant to reignite interest in the Transformers brand a decade of stagnation and give it the boost that it needed to survive into the new millennium, eventually gained…
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Film Review: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation Ever feel like you just witnessed cinematic history being made in the moment? That’s what it feels like watching every minute of Across the Spider-Verse, the long anticipated sequel one of animation’s most bold and ambitious offerings of the past decade. And while animation is just catching up to that…
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Film Review: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation Comics don’t have endings. One of the unfournate truths about getting into superhero stories is that many of them are static on purpose. This is for practical purposes, mainly – maintaining a sort of status quo keeps the character from straying too far from the public consciousness while also allowing…
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