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Film Review: Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation Directed by Wes Ball Starring Owen Teague, Freya Allan, Kevin Durand, William H. Macy PG-13 Pretty wild in retrospect that the new Planet of the Apes films, which started on a whim thanks to a modestly budgeted semi-prequel, semi-reimagining turned reboot afterwards 13 years ago, have become some of the…
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Film Review: Spy x Family Code: White
By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation Directed by Takashi Katagiri Starring Takuya Eguchi, Atsumi Tanezaki, Saori Hayami, Kenichiro Matsuda PG-13 The delightfully silly antics of the Forger family, anime’s newest pop culture icons, is difficult to describe to non-fans or those unfamiliar with the series. The unassumingly complex premise – which involves two characters who don’t…
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Film Review: Kung Fu Panda 4
By Matthew Moorcroft Solid Recommendation Directed by Mike Mitchell Starring Jack Black, Awkwafina, Dustin Hoffman, Viola Davis PG It’s been 16 years since the original Kung Fu Panda dropped in 2008. The surprise box office smash and critical darling was almost as important as the moving parts behind the scenes during it’s production. DreamWorks, hiding…
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Film Review: Dune: Part Two
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation Directed by Denis Villeneuve Starring Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson, Javier Bardem PG-13 Dune: Part Two‘s mere existence is something of a miracle. And I’m not talking it’s about it’s quality or how the hell Denis Villeneuve managed to make some of it – though that’s definitely also part of…
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Film Review: Godzilla Minus One
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation Directed by Takashi Yamazaki Starring Ryunosuke Kamiki, Minami Hamabe, Yuki Yamada, Munetaka Aoki PG-13 70 years ago, Ishiro Honda’s Godzilla (or Gojira as it’s sometimes called to differ it from some later entries with the same title) changed everything. While monster movies had been around for awhile, Godzilla‘s revolutionary “suitmation”…
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Film Review: The Boy and the Heron
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation Directed by Hayao Miyazaki Starring Soma Santoki, Masaki Suda, Aimyon, Yoshino Kimura PG-13 Opening with a hospital fire, The Boy and the Heron (also known as How Do You Live? in it’s admittedly much better Japanese title) starts with a literal bang, which is interesting considering how much of The…
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Film Review: Killers of the Flower Moon
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation Directed by Martin Scorsese Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert de Niro, Lily Gladstone, Jesse Plemons R A near 10 year in the making picture, Killers of the Flower Moon represents the third in a trilogy of late period Martin Scorsese projects that are mainly passion affairs. It started with his faith…
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Film Review: The Zone of Interest
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation Directed by Jonathan Glazer Starring Christian Friedel, Sandra Huller, Johann Karthaus, Luis Noah Witte PG-13 When discussing historical tragedies in film, there is an inevitable urge to frame the action as some sort of humanitarian service; a documentation for future generations to perceive maybe not the full horror but just…
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Film Review: The Night of the 12th
By Matthew Moorcroft Solid Recommendation Directed by Dominik Moll Starring Bastien Bouillon, Bouli Lanners, Theo Cholbi, Anouk Grinberg Not Rated From it’s opening title card, you know how The Night of the 12th is going to end. It doesn’t try to hide it at any point either, making it clear that what you are witnessing…
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Film Review: The Beast
By Matthew Moorcroft Solid Recommendation Directed by Bertrand Bonello Starring Lea Seydoux, George MacKay, Guslagie Malanda, Dasha Nekrasova Not Rated The Beast is confounding. Not even in just the traditional sense of being difficult to decipher – any film that opens up with a green screen recreation of a scene from it’s own third act…
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