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Film Review: Deadpool & Wolverine
By Matthew Moorcroft Solid Recommendation Sorry guys. I think it’s easy to be cynical about something like Deadpool & Wolverine, and I don’t blame anyone who is. Even beyond the nature of bringing back Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine – a character believed to have been retired, dead, and buried – there the multiversal stuff and standard…
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Film Review: Twisters
By Matthew Moorcroft Solid Recommendation The belated sequel to the 1996 disaster B-movie classic – though sequel could be something a stretch considering how little it has to do with said prior installment – opens with, what else, a tornado sequence for the ages. An EF5 tornado appears and swallows up our lead and her…
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Film Review: Inside Out 2
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation The Inside Out films are kind of a weird anomaly within western animation. Even for Pixar, the films which focus on the personifications of emotions within the mind of a young girl, are more sophisticated and nuanced then some adult films releasing nowadays; the closest things to animated character studies…
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Film Review: Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation How do you follow up Fury Road? A sane person would tell you that you don’t. The once in a lifetime action picture that sweeped the technical Oscars and is a fan favourite among many a cinephile and action buff isn’t something you top. Everything else you make will forever…
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Film Review: Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation Pretty wild in retrospect that the new Planet of the Apes films, which started on a whim thanks to a modestly budgeted semi-prequel, semi-reimagining turned reboot afterwards 13 years ago, have become some of the most respected tentpoles in modern cinema. It’s not surprising if you think about it for…
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Film Review: Spy x Family Code: White
By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation The delightfully silly antics of the Forger family, anime’s newest pop culture icons, is difficult to describe to non-fans or those unfamiliar with the series. The unassumingly complex premise – which involves two characters who don’t know a thing about each other, one who knows everything, and a dog who…
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Film Review: Kung Fu Panda 4
By Matthew Moorcroft Solid Recommendation It’s been 16 years since the original Kung Fu Panda dropped in 2008. The surprise box office smash and critical darling was almost as important as the moving parts behind the scenes during it’s production. DreamWorks, hiding high off of the success of the Shrek franchise and several other high…
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Film Review: Dune: Part Two
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation Dune: Part Two‘s mere existence is something of a miracle. And I’m not talking it’s about it’s quality or how the hell Denis Villeneuve managed to make some of it – though that’s definitely also part of it – but the fact it was even made to begin with is…
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Film Review: Godzilla Minus One
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation 70 years ago, Ishiro Honda’s Godzilla (or Gojira as it’s sometimes called to differ it from some later entries with the same title) changed everything. While monster movies had been around for awhile, Godzilla‘s revolutionary “suitmation” practical effects combined with it’s genuine thematic depth surrounding post-war anxieties suddenly made the…
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Film Review: The Boy and the Heron
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation Opening with a hospital fire, The Boy and the Heron (also known as How Do You Live? in it’s admittedly much better Japanese title) starts with a literal bang, which is interesting considering how much of The Boy and the Heron is also Hayao Miyazaki’s quietest film in a very…
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