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Film Review: Captain America: Brave New World

By Matthew Moorcroft Unsure It really feels like Captain America: Brave New World has come out like at least like five times already. The long gestating project, subject to numerous reshoots, a writers and actors strike, and story changes in the midst of an ever-evolving political landscape, feels like a movie that was always on…
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Film Review: Ne Zha 2

By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation If you haven’t heard of Ne Zha, you will probably hear about it very soon. Over in it’s native China, Ne Zha, and more specifically it’s sequel, has become something of a pop culture phenomenon, breaking records of all kinds and becoming the first film to make over a billion…
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Film Review: Companion

By Matthew Moorcroft Solid Recommendation While it’s reputation as a dumping ground hasn’t been completely unfounded, in recent years January has slowly but surely also developed a reputation for putting stranger, more out there affairs for studios who may not be confident in their overall success. Just two years ago saw the release of M3GAN…
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Film Review: The Brutalist

By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation Made for only $9.6 million, The Brutalist feels like a towering feat. It is in itself a statement; a huge, monumental picture that feels huge and monumental while only using a fraction of the resources that is normally given to a feature like this. Very fitting that a film about…
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Film Review: Wicked

By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation Getting a Wicked movie always felt like something of a weird pipedream. Seemingly in development for a decade and talked about for even longer, by the time it got to our movie screens it almost feels like a nostalgia property rather then a hot of the Broadway ticket adaptation that…
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Film Review: Better Man

By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation Like a lot of non-European folks, I was mostly unfamiliar with Robbie Williams prior to this film, which shouldn’t come as much of a surprise. While Take That was a musical staple in the UK, their success never truly translated to the US, and because of that despite Robbie Williams…
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Film Review: Nosferatu

By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation Early in Nosferatu, our leading man Thomas finds himself at a literal crossroads waiting for a carriage that will take him to his next client – the mysterious and reclusive Count Orlok, who lives in Transylvania alone and has “one foot in the grave” so to speak. The night is…
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Film Review: A Complete Unknown

By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation In 2005, director James Mangold released Walk the Line, a biopic on legendary singer and artist Johnny Cash. While many a music biopic have come and gone these days, Walk the Line is in a lot of ways the prototype for the type of film that most have come to…
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Film Review: Sonic the Hedgehog 3

By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation I’m finding it difficult to start my writeup this time around. Normally how these things go is “unfunny one liner to grab your attention, explaining the premise, and then launching into tirades about nothing”, which works for about 95% of the things I write without fail. Rinse, repeat, post, see…
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Film Review: A Different Man

By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation Aaron Schimberg’s A Different Man, which begins on a man’s face being scanned for the possibility of treatment, is one of the most unique films of the year simply by the means of it’s execution. Steeped in old school cinematography stylings that wouldn’t feel out of place in something like…