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Film Review: Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation Directed by Jonathan Goldstein & John Francis Daley Starring Chris Pine, Michelle Rodriguez, Rege-Jean Page, Hugh Grant PG-13 D&D is in such a strange position in pop culture at the moment. Even beyond it’s current controversies involving Hasbro and their treatment of third party OGL, the franchise at large is…
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Film Review: Cocaine Bear
By Matthew Moorcroft Solid Recommendation Directed by Elizabeth Banks Starring Keri Russell, O’Shea Jackson Jr., Alden Ehrenreich, Ray Liotta R The only question that is going through your mind when asking yourself “should I see Cocaine Bear” is whether or not like the words “cocaine” and “bear” in the same sentence. If so, then honestly,…
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Film Review: Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
By Matthew Moorcroft Unsure Directed by Peyton Reed Starring Paul Rudd, Evangeline Lilly, Jonathan Majors, Kathryn Newton PG-13 Um… what? Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania feels like it should be better then it actually is. It’s filled to the brim with cool ideas and wicked imagery, fully taking advantage of the “Tales to Astonish” serial…
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Film Review: Sick
By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation Directed by John Hyams Starring Gideon Adlon, Bethlehem Million, Dylan Sprayberry, Joel Courtney R It may seem like an eternity ago, but Kevin Williamson was once the king of the slasher genre. With the double whammy of Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer, the game was changed.…
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Film Review: White Noise
By Matthew Moorcroft Solid Recommendation Directed by Noah Baumbach Starring Adam Driver, Greta Gerwig, Don Cheadle, Raffey Cassidy R I’ve never read Don DeLillo’s White Noise. In fact, my only prior experience with DeLillo in general is through David Cronenberg’s adaptation of Cosmopolis, which I found to be one of Cronenberg’s more unique and hard…
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Film Review: Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation Directed by Rian Johnson Starring Daniel Craig, Edward Norton, Janelle Monáe, Dave Bautista PG-13 The original Knives Out‘s breath of fresh air – and surprise box office success – was cut short by the news that Netflix had acquired the rights to it’s now two sequels. Part of Knives Out‘s…
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Film Review: Babylon
By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation Directed by Damien Chazelle Starring Diego Calva, Margot Robbie, Brad Pitt, Jean Smart R WARNING: THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR BABYLON, PARTICULARLY THE 10 LAST MINUTES. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED. Babylon‘s extended opening sequence – which begins with literal elephant shit graphically splayed across the screen and around our lead…
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Film Review: Avatar: The Way of Water
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation Directed by James Cameron Starring Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Stephen Lang, Sigourney Weaver PG-13 Was there any doubt? I’m pretty sure at this point you’d be a fool to underestimate James Cameron as a filmmaker. The man has defied expectations time and time again to the point where it’s almost…
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Film Review: Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation Directed by Guillermo del Toro and Mark Gustafson Starring Gregory Mann, Ewan McGregor, David Bradley, Tilda Swinton PG For some reason, 2022 has been the year of Pinocchio overload. Outside of this widely anticipated version from auteur Guillermo del Toro, there is also another animated version that earlier this year…
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Film Review: The Fabelmans
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation Directed by Steven Spielberg Starring Gabriel LaBelle, Michelle Williams, Paul Dano, Seth Rogen PG-13 If anybody was going to do a biopic on Steven Spielberg, it might as well be the man himself. And that’s pretty much what The Fabelmans is despite all of the names being changed around; this…
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