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Film Review: Rental Family
By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation It’s not hard on the onset to see Rental Family, Hikari’s sophomore feature outing and her first major one in the Hollywood sphere after making a name for herself thanks to her work on Beef, as an easy star vehicle for Brendan Fraser post-Oscar win. Fraser’s own personal persona as…
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Film Review: It Was Just An Accident
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation There really isn’t another filmmaker quite like Jafar Panahi, whose essential work in Iranian cinema is, of itself, an act of supreme defiance and rage. But while he isn’t the only director in recent memory who has been doing this type of work – just take a look at Mohammad…
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Film Review: A Private Life
By Matthew Moorcroft Weak Recommendation A strange, almost self-analytical “murder” mystery that’s honestly more about it’s investigator then the supposed crime itself, A Private Life certainly has it’s work cut out for it. It wants to be a sophisticated character study that plays with time, perspective, and dream logic, but it also has it’s tongue…
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Film Review: Tron: Ares
By Matthew Moorcroft Unsure Disney can’t seem to figure out what to do about Tron, huh? The 80s cult hit, which languished in mostly cinephile history books as a strange but important note in the development of VFX, became one of those films that persisted almost by chance. It’s vocal fandom, made up of mostly…
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Film Review: One Battle After Another
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation The chance to review a new Paul Thomas Anderson flick is something of a rare opportunity. One of the greatest living American filmmakers – maybe one of the last if AI seemingly has it’s way within the studio system and beyond – and one of our best living auteurs, Anderson…
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Film Review: The Long Walk
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation Bleakness is the name of the game in The Long Walk. Even from it’s first scene, which showcase a mother desperately trying to get her son to not participate in the violent game. But they have no choice – after all, it’s either die trying for a future on the…
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Film Review: The Fantastic Four: First Steps
By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation Despite their importance being on the same level as characters like Spider-Man or Superman, The Fantastic Four have strangely had something of a rougher time getting adapted. To be fair, it’s not like people haven’t tried – they’ve tried 4 times in fact – but Marvel’s First Family has been…
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Film Review: The Naked Gun
By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation The cinematic comedy is in trouble, or at least the film industry seems to think so. Whether it be the rise of streaming, the changing tastes of moviegoers, the rise of mainstream blockbusters embracing comedy as part of their main appeal – for better or worse, depending on the flick…
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Film Review: Weapons
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation When I reviewed Barbarian several years ago – my first year of writing reviews, actually – I called Barbarian a movie that goes “full sicko mode from the start”. If Barbarian is the movie that basically starts at 100 and never lets up, Zach Cregger’s follow up Weapons, which is…
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Film Review: Together
By Matthew Moorcroft Solid Recommendation Relationships, amirite? Almost right away, Together makes it’s intentions pretty clear. And then it’s ultimately about as subtle as sledgehammer to the face, or this case a saw to the arm; you can’t say Together doesn’t have stuff on it’s mind and doesn’t have something of a thematic core at…
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