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Film Review: Omaha
By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation With a slow, almost unsure beginning, Omaha is a film that leaves it’s viewer at a distance almost immediately. This is on purpose, clearly by design from a newcomer filmmaker with something to prove. It takes it’s time getting going, just like the car that our core trio are driving…
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Film Review: Sirat
By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation Just like the music that pumps through the sound systems at a rave, Sirat moves at it’s own pulsating, intricate rhythm. In fact, the first and final images of Sirat are like a loop, showcasing the beginning setup of the sound system itself followed by the desolate leftovers of what…
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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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