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Film Review: Kneecap
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation I’ll be the first to admit that I’m not exactly fully verse in the complex geopolitical landmine that is Northern Ireland. My experience with it is completely tangential and mostly through screens, news, and media; I’m witnessing it mostly through others eyes rather then my own. It’s interesting though how…
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Film Review: The Seed of the Sacred Fig
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation Mohammad Rasoulof has more guts then anybody else alive right now. The Seed of the Sacred Fig is worth watching regardless of it’s quality simply cause of the things that director Rasoulof had to go through in order to get it made. Rasoulof has been arrested by Iranian authorities several…
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Film Review: All We Imagine as Light
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation The immediately gorgeous and tender All We Imagine as Light actually begins rather quaint compared to what you might expect considering the sheer amount of praise this has gotten since it’s debut at Cannes. The otherwise simple story of the friendship between three woman is a tale old as time;…
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Film Review: Misericordia
By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation Immediately from the onset, Misericordia is bizarre. Not just in the usual “oh you quirky French” kind of way – though there is definitely a bit of that – but also in that something is very clearly off about this otherwise idyllic small French town. Our lead, Jérémie, is here…
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Film Review: Dahomey
By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation There are 7000 historical artifacts from the kingdom of Dahomey that were stolen. The French colonial rule took these for the taking, and nowadays the objects sit for viewing at the Paris museum Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac, just waiting there. Sitting. It wasn’t until 2020 that 26…
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Film Review: Young Hearts
By Matthew Moorcroft Solid Recommendation Young Hearts, for better and for worst, is mostly sweet and unassuming. And this is mostly by design; it wants to be cozy, comfort version of these kinds of stories, a Close without much of the same heartbreak or alienation that can come from films of it’s ilk. I would…
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Film Review: The Apprentice
By Matthew Moorcroft Solid Recommendation Honestly, in the wake of the 2024 US elections, The Apprentice is a film that seems more and more less like a warning or an omen and more like a solemn realization. You would think that a film about the most talked about man in the world wouldn’t be interesting,…
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Film Review: Anora
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation Anora (or Ani, as everybody calls her) is a sex worker. A stripper specifically, though she isn’t opposed to some “side gigs” so to speak if it helps pays the bills. In one of the most electric needledrops of the year, which happens basically 5 seconds into the film, we…
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Film Review: Solo Leveling: ReAwakening
By Matthew Moorcroft Unsure There is a moment in Solo Leveling‘s first season that makes it pretty clear what it’s intentions are off the bat, and it’s exceptionally early. When our lead, Sung Jin-woo (Shun Mizushino in Japanese), heads to a dungeon with some fellow hunters, only to find a second, far more deadly one…
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Film Review: The Substance
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation Immediately after walking out of The Substance for the first time with my large crowd of festival goers, it felt like I was walking out of a concert. Adrenaline pumping, blood racing. I rush home to try and get some kind of thoughts out, anything at all, wanting to tell…
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