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Film Review: Sharp Corner
By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation Within it’s first 10 minutes, Sharp Corner opens with a literal bang. A botched quickie in a new home is turned suddenly violent as a car veers out of control and crashes into our lead’s newly bought house – or more specifically it’s tree. It’s a literal climax that stops…
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Film Review: Maria
By Matthew Moorcroft Weak Recommendation Pablo Larrain’s trilogy of women centric stories (unofficially and unwiedly called “Trilogy of important 20th century women”) is mostly defined by two very key ingredients. Firstly, each film is less of a straight up biopic and more of a tone poem, highly interested in replicating a particular feeling or emotion…
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Film Review: Flow
By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation The best way to describe Flow, a new ambitious animated feature from Latvian director Gints Zibalodis, is that of “tech demo”. This isn’t necessarily a good or bad thing (though to some it may seem like faint praise), but as an animated film made entirely through open source software –…
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Film Review: The Count of Monte Cristo
By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation One of the most adapted and beloved books of the 19th century, we are graced with yet another adaptation of The Count of Monte Cristo. This time, it comes courtesy of Matthieu Delaporte and Alexandre de La Patellière, who previously scripted a two-part adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’ other beloved classic…
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Film Review: Black Box Diaries
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation CW: Contains frank discussions about sexual assault A documentary 6 years in the making, Black Box Diaries initially functions as a day by day account of Shiori Ito’s fight and case in her own sexual assault, which on it’s own is an impressive feat. Ito’s fight for recognition and some…
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Film Review: My Dad’s Tapes
By Matthew Moorcroft Solid Recommendation My Dad’s Tapes is a difficult work to review because I’m not really sure it’s meant to be “reviewed” in the traditional sense. It would frankly be like reviewing or critiquing somebody’s own personal emotional therapy or the old home movies one made to escape from reality; it’s one thing…
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Film Review: Seeking Mavis Beacon
By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation When do we decide to be remembered? In the digital age this is a question that becomes more and more relevant with each passing day as technology becomes more powerful and easier to access. Digital footprints left behind by those long past are still available to see, for better and…
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Film Review: My Hero Academia: You’re Next
By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation There used to be a time in anime history where the long running shonen series would get movies almost on the yearly, and while the industry is currently in a position where that’s mostly unsustainable, My Hero Academia is certainly damn well going to try. While You’re Next, the latest…
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Film Review: Joker: Folie à Deux
By Matthew Moorcroft No Recommendation Does Todd Phillips feel like J. Robert Oppenheimer? Does he regret his own creation? It very much seems that way if Joker: Folie à Deux is to be believed, who opens up with an animated sequence that sets up much of the story and conflict of said sequel. This animated…
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Film Review: Transformers One
By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation Despite it’s origins in animation, it’s taken nearly 40 years for Transformers to return to the big screen in the format that initially made them famous in the first place. After floudering around for 16 years in live action films whose quality ranged from great (Bumblebee) to terrible (basically any…
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